Sekiguchi's fragments recall Roland Barthes, Sei Shonagon, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, and Pessoa's own pensive, rambling meditations...
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adagio in the Kenyon Review!
Sekiguchi's fragments recall Roland Barthes, Sei Shonagon, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, and Pessoa's own pensive, rambling meditations...
Rick Henry reviews adagio at The Collagist
Pessoa's desire is not for Queiroz, but for conversation, for linguistic expression, which leads to Sekiguchi's love of language, and a different kind of maximal contact, one between languages...
20 questions with adagio translator Lindsay Turner
It turns out that I really love translating, especially poetry, because it sends me back to the part of writing that’s a fundamental, material engagement with words and sounds...
John Bradley reviews Irradiated Cities for Rain Taxi
The colon is the perfect punctuation for this book, as it’s logical, neutral, and inevitable...
Enfermario included on Entropy’s Best Fiction 2017 list!
The words are wounds and portals, and her narratives somehow puncture into the heart of what it means to be a human among other humans...
Irradiated Cities makes Entropy’s Best of 2017 Non-Fiction List!
Nagai speaks to both the individual and to the unifying social trauma […] The book wobbles brilliantly on the border between the known and unknown...
Gabrielle Civil reviews Antígona González at Rain Taxi
Throughout the text, memory operates as an urgent holding place, a site of both bittersweet nostalgia and urgent personal/political resistance....
Enfermario reviewed at Empty Mirror
Olivares, like Beckett, is working towards a much more radical understanding of identity...
Joyelle McSweeney’s lyric review of Antígona González up at The Bind
That’s the only thing I want now, a body, a grave. That refuge....
Lambda Literary reviews Enfermario
Bodies and parts of bodies have lives beyond our comprehension...
Review of irradiated cities up at PANK
a book that reminds us that the culture of irradiation has only just begun, that irradiation has no truck with certainty...
Excerpts from irradiated cities at SOFTBLOW Poetry Journal
: rivers clogged with bodies : rivers stay still : houses burn :...