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When Nyamuragi, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions to an appropriate place to relieve himself, his gestures are mistaken as premeditation for rape. To...

Canting Arms (the heraldic term refers to coats of arms that are visual puns) is the fitting title for Galaicu-Pa?un's selected poems. His style is rich with references at once both playful and...

In Carapace Dancer, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015).Toledo returns to the landscape...

Magnús Sigurdsson spare poems pay rare attention to the minute revelations of nature rather than allowing the crudeness of machinery to bulldoze our sentiments. Through intricate wordplay and a...

David Avidan was himself a Futureman, a self-described "Galactic Poet" and radical individualist known for his innovative use of Hebrew both on the page and in his performances and films. Recognized...

A profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life. American readers' awareness of contemporary Japan, through literature and poetry, has increased...

In wondrous, singing translation by Mike Soto, these spare, striking poems by Ignacio Ruiz-P?ez explore the infinite solitude of the universe. The poems of Ignacio Ruiz-P?ez reflect a world...

It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire collects poems from Serbian poet Zvonko Karanovic's entire oeuvre, translated by Ana Bozicevic. Karanovic is "a counter-cultural icon [who] writes in a vivid,...

Like A New Sun showcases the vibrant contemporary poetry being written in indigenous Mexican languages. Featuring poets writing in Huasteca, Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya,...

Taut and contemplative, these poems ruminate on family, exile, love, and the vagaries of human perception.Love Training encapsulates Andr?eacute;s Neuman's work as a poet, spanning two decades in a...

Ebamba's name means "mender" in Lingala, but everything in the Congolese twentysomething's life seems to be falling apart. In the chaotic megacity of Kinshasa, the educated but unemployed young man...

Night-Sky Checkerboard introduces English-language readers to the imagistic lyricism of a Korean master at the peak of his powers. As a young poet fascinated by Modernism, Oh Sae-young attempted to...

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS-ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTESTNo Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from S?o Tom?eacute; to appear in...

A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home. Nostalgia Doesn't...

A collection of poetry from acclaimed yet underrepresented Kurdish poet Farhad Pirbal. Like his contemporary Abdulla Pashew, this poetry is a chronicle of exile and displacement, longing and not...

Rilke Shake's title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Ang?eacute;lica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to...

Engineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident. Or he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery -- protecting...

In his biting first full-length collection in English, Tijuana poet Roberto Castillo Udiarte commiserates with Zona Norte streetwalkers, embodies the desert lizard, and maps a life lived in the...

A bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices. Ten years have passed since the 73rd genocide of the Yazidis, who have faced ongoing persecution, displacement and ethnic cleansing from their...

Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed, Kiriu Minashita says in the afterword to Sonic Peace, "the world is being ecstatically eroded by the violent rewriting of meaning." Sonic Peace is...

In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child's love of language. Lyn Coffin's translations from...

Natalia Toledo's The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems...

When leftist revolutionary Sergio's sniper shot misses the President of Venezuela, he's thrown into a sudden tailspin. As he attempts to escape the increasingly militarized regime, he winds up taking...

The End of the Dark Era is the first book of Mongolian poetry to be published in the United States, and one of the few avant-garde collections to have come from the vast steppes of Mongolia. Poet...

If the team that makes The Moth travelled back in time to a Soviet factory, these are the grotesquely funny stories they'd come back with.Author: Ksenia Buksha, Anne O. FisherPublisher: Phoneme...

The Law of Conservation is a poetry collection intensely attuned to landscape, both geographic and metaphorical. Borders blurred as cities cede to rural land; the body as a changing place on an...

A collection celebrating the Centennial of seminal modernist Macedonian poet Aco Esopov. This substantive collection represents ESopov's creative career, starting with his first book of poetry in...

Liu Zongyuan's remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye. The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan...

The River In The Belly - 9781646050673Author: Fiston Mwanza MujilaPublisher: Phoneme MediaPublication Date: August 31, 2021Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The edgy, lyrical verse of an essential voice from the ChinaAuthor: Zhu Zhu, Dong LiPublisher: Phoneme MediaPublication Date: Jun 26, 2018Number of Pages: 143 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...