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The Gate of Memory is:
@haymarketbooks.org
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookstore @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
and your local independents
Special love to the bookstores committed to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), info @wawog.bsky.social: t.ly/_FvsW
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And so much love and thanks to @haymarketbooks.org, Maria Isabelle Carlos, Jameka Williams, Jim Plank, Aricka Foreman, Jamie Kerry, Carlos Enriquez, John McDonald, and especially Maya Marshall, for her wisdom, guidance, faith. Please support their visionary work: t.ly/FrG-g
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So much love and thanks to everyone who supported the book coming into being, especially Mitsuye Yamada (who wrote the foreword), Lawson Inada (who wrote the afterword), and Julie Otsuka, Naomi Murakawa, Rita Wong, Kerri Sakamoto, Karen Tei Yamashita for their generous words: thegateofmemory.com
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So much love and thanks to the poets for sharing their extraordinary work, entrusting us with it, and for living this afterlife with us. Read about them and their families at:
thegateofmemory.com/contributors
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The Gate of Memory (@haymarketbooks.org) is motivated in large part by the urgent need to illuminate and redress, through literature, the ongoing afterlife of racist state violence, incl. the dehumanization, dispossession, displacement and incarceration of an entire population of people.
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Significantly, the event is co-sponsored by La Resistencia, with many connections to be drawn between the arrest of our grandparents and great-grandparents as enemy aliens in WW2 and the targeting of immigrants for deportation today. 2/2.
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/brynn-sait...
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This book is going to be (it already is) so extraordinary and so essential to an understanding — and a full appreciation — of the history, memory, legacies and everlasting echoes of Japanese American incarceration. So much congratulations, Tamiko!
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Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun, tr. Humphrey Davies.
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Ariana Harwicz, Die, My Love, tr. Carolina Orloff & Sarah Moses. George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. Bhanu Kapil, Humanimal. Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene. James Baldwin, Blues For Mister Charlies. Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of. Wong May, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals →
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Ghassan Zaqtan, The Silence That Remains, tr. Fady Joudah. Ryunosuke Akutagawa, A Fool’s Life, tr. Will Petersen. Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence, tr. @sinanantoon.bsky.social. Sharon Sliwinski, Mandela’s Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming. →
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Nadia Tuéni, Lebanon: Poems of Love and War, tr. Samuel Hazo and Paul B. Kelley. @kikuhughes.bsky.social, Displacement. Ibrahim Nasrallah, Palestinian, tr. @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social. Noelle Kocot, Ascent of the Mothers. Emily Jungmin Yoon, Find Me As The Creature I Am. →
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Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light, tr. Geraldine Harcourt. Jawdat Fakhreddine, The Sky That Denied Me, tr. Roger Allen and @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social. Nadia Tuéni, The Blond Texts & The Age of Embers, tr. Amir Parsa. Salim Barakat, The Universe, All at Once: Selected Poems, tr. Huda Fakhreddine →
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Hussein Barghouthi, Among the Almond Trees, tr. Ibrahim Muhawi. Édouard Louis, Change, tr. John Lambert. Claire Schwartz, Civil Service. Fady Joudah, Tethered to Stars. Danzy Senna, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Tash Aw, The Face: Strangers on a Pier. James Baldwin, No Name in the Street →
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Janice Lee, The Sky Isn’t Blue. June Jordan, Passion: New Poems, 1977-1980. Olivia Elias, Chaos, Crossing, tr. Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Poupeh Missaghi, Sound Museum. June Jordan, Things that I do in the dark: Selected Poems. Sarah Gerard, Carrie Carolyn Coco. Jennifer MacKenzie, Pain Survey →
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Édouard Louis, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, tr. Tash Aw. Tamim Al-Barghouti, In Jerusalem and Other Poems, tr. Radwa Ashour and Tamim Al-Barghouti. Lynne Tillman, Mothercare. Annie Ernaux, “I Remain in Darkness,” tr. Tanya Leslie. Frida Kahlo, The Last Interview and Other Conversations →
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Ernesto Cardenal, Flights of Victory, tr. Marc Zimmerman. Julia Wong Kcomt, A Blind Salmon, tr. Jennifer Shyue. Amit Chaudhuri, Friend of My Youth. Amit Chaudhuri, Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music. Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease To Understand The World, tr. Adrian Nathan West →
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Ghassan Kanafani, The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine, tr. Hazem Jamjoum. Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname, tr. David Gullette. Suad Amiry, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries. Ernesto Cardenal, From Nicaragua with Love, tr. Jonathan Cohen →
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Ahmad Almallah, Border Wisdom. Ghassan Zaqtan, The Silence That Remains, tr. Fady Joudah. Anton Shammas, Arabesques, tr. Vivian Eden. Tony Wallin-Sato, Okaerinasai. Lucille Clifton, Voices. Iman Mersal, Traces of Enayat, tr. Robin Moger. Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God. →
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Mira Mattar, The Bow. Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest. Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl. Don Mee Choi, Mirror Nation. Annie Ernaux, The Young Man, tr. Alison L. Strayer. Jessica Au, Cold Enough For Snow. Yahya Ashour, A Gaza of Siege & Genocide. Margaret Ross, Saturday →
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Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows. Kenneth Rexroth, 100 Poems from the Chinese. Lee Ann Roripaugh, Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50. Arthur Sze, The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese. Fady Joudah, [...]. Bhanu Kapil, Humanimal. Tilsa Otta, The Hormone of Darkness, tr. @faridmatuk.bsky.social →
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Tawfiq Zayyad, We Are Here to Stay, tr. Aida Bamia. Duo Duo, Looking Out From Death, tr. Gregory Lee & John Cayley. Five T’ang Poets: Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Li Ho, Shang-Yin, tr. David Young. @patrickcottrell.bsky.social, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit (not yet published). Bhanu Kapil, Incubation →
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Samih Al-Qasim, Just an Ashtray, tr. Adbulwahid Lu’lu’a. Hussein Barghouthi, Among the Almond Trees, tr. Ibrahim Muhawi. Hussein Barghouthi, The Blue Light, tr. Fady Joudah. Federico García Lorca, The Selected Poems of, eds. Francisco García Lorca and Donald Allen. →