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hey i know we're in a period of using the speculative to tell heartwarming and cozy stories right now but i'm really excited for books that use the speculative to do really fucked up weird shit

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New ACTION BOOKS coming this April: • Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses • Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand • W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!

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Antonio Gamoneda, from Burn the Losses (forthcoming Action Books this spring, trans. Hedeen and Nunez:

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the face not seen Christina Rossetti, ‘Somewhere or Other’

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"Translation is the Message": Wrote a post about McLuhan and translation: johannesgransson.substack.com/p/the-transl...

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There will be a conference about Ukraine, including a significant amount of literary focus, at @notredame.bsky.social at the end of next week: nanovic.nd.edu/events/2025-...

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Rip Pierre Joris. Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.

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“I counted each slap in my head. I sprawled out on the floor of my boarding house and wrote one poem for each slap..." On Kim Hyesoon's forthcoming book (and how Nobel laureate Han Kang references KH's life) english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

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What was that anthology of essays on Bob Dylan by literary scholars about to be published that I saw flit past my eyes on here the other day?

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Brooklyn, make sure you come to hear Action Books poet Ghayath Almadhoun on March 5. He will be reading from I Have Brought You A Severed Hand (forthcoming from AB in April). www.thewordischange.com/events/ahmad...

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Make sure you follow the Action Books account for the latest news from this publisher of international and US poetry: bsky.app/profile/acti...

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"The poems in this book are untitled and incredibly brief, and it is easy to read them as short-yet-elusive letters and, at the same time, as part of one long epic." Wonderful review of Jäderlund's Lonespeech on Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social : heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/12/l...

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A poem only becomes poetry when its structure Is made not of words but forces. - Cecilia Vicuna

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”She was looking for something new and big.” This Ted Hughes biography is quickly turning to Plath-shaming... Tho tbh she also brings some much needed sensationalism and energy to the book... Suddenly it's all about drinking, fornicating and biting.

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Stumbled over this brilliant poem by Romanian poet Ion Caraion in Forche's anthology Against Forgetting:

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"Vibratory forms in space and in time." People who live in South Bend area, on Wednesday the @notredame.bsky.social is hosting renowned poet and artist Cecilia Vicuna. Join us: english.nd.edu/news-events/...

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The visibility of the translator...

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Something I love about poetry is getting involved in weird project like this.

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As a result of reading a bunch of Hughes lately, I have also gone back to Vasko Popa:

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Influence is such a complex, volatile feature of art. Art puts his under its influence. But our dominant critical frameworks are meant to control it - creating linear, national literatures. Influence is far more anarchic.

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@actionbooks.bsky.social has joined Bluesky!

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"You could smell the fear everywhere. But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you," Almadhoun explains." Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship: www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...

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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

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I came upon a butcher, he was slaughtering a lamb, I accused him there with his tortured lamb. He said, "Listen to me, child, I am what I am and you, and you are my only son." "The Butcher" by Leonard Cohen... Thought about this song today... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmW...

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Ted Hughes' "Littleblood":

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Interesting article about Bruno K. Öijer as eco poetry in Rain Taxi Review: raintaxi.com/the-nature-l... raintaxi.com/the-nature-l...

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Take a walk around Times Square With a pistol in my suitcase And my eyes on the TV rip Marianne Faithfull www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8C...

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My former student Ae He Lee is the judge of the Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books: www.switchbackbooks.com/submissions

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"Who loved the shot-pellets That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows? Who spoke the silence of lead?" Reading Ted Hughes' Crow again. A great book.

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Having a Trakl day today...

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”The river delicately twists. Gorgeous little cadaver riverlet that you are. They fish you out. You sit like a dog.” - Amelia Rosselli (Trans Jen Scappettone )

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"Gacela of the Terrible Presence" by Federico Garcia Lorca (trans Merwin):

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Serbian folktale, edited by Vasko Popa

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Eva Kristina Olsson (in @annulet.bsky.social ) : annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Eva-Kristina...

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Some Merwin for an apocalyptic day:

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The three quipus here... are composed primarily of wool but also include natural plant fibers, horsehair, metal, wood, seashells, nutshells, seeds ... Can they be considered a kind of writing, and, if so, are they poems?" - John Vincler on Cecilia Vicuna www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...

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