Books: The Little Horse by Thorvald Steen, tr by James Anderson, and Selfies by Sylvie Weil tr by Roz Schwartz

Yes I should be reading book already on my shelves, but I'm also trying to order some of the titles that have been sitting on my waitlists. @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social #Seagullbooks

2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff I don’t know what I expected when this year began. Ever since 2020 it seems we have greeted each year with some measure of optimism—I mean how could it be worse than the one that just …

Better late than never: 2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social #seagullbooks, #newdirections
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It's Women in Translation Month and although some of my review reading does not fit the bill, I will be trying to get some #WITmonth contributions in. Starting with this wild and weird collection, The Minotaur's Daughter by Slovak poet Eva Luka, tr. by James Sutherland-Smith. #seagullbooks

A mirror to a life: Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben A form of life that keeps itself in relation to a poetic practice, however that may be, is always in the studio, always in the studio. Granted that what Giorgio Agamben calls a “studio” might be be…

“While all our faculties seem to dimmish and fail us, the imagination grows to excess and takes up all possible space.” – Giorgio Agamben #ItalianLit #SeagullBooks
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In that strange, that golden light: Psyche Running – Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein And suddenly you saw it, far below the coast road, after the twelfth curve, stomach surging from the hair-pin drive. En route for the south; so we sped on perched above the drop, windows down. Sorr…

ICYMI I wrote about a selection of poems by German poet Durs Grünbein, translated by Karen Leeder
Short listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize #SeagullBooks

In that strange, that golden light: Psyche Running – Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein roughghosts.com/2025/04/26/i...

In that strange, that golden light: Psyche Running – Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein And suddenly you saw it, far below the coast road, after the twelfth curve, stomach surging from the hair-pin drive. En route for the south; so we sped on perched above the drop, windows down. Sorr…

In that strange, that golden light: Psyche Running – Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein, translated by Karen Leeder #SeagullBooks
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Two books: A History of Light by Jan Nemec (translated by David Short) and The Minotaur's Daughter:Selected Poems by Eva Luka (translated by James Sutherland-Smith)

New or forthcoming Slovak literature arrived today. Both look very good. #SeagullBooks

Three books: Old World by Fabienne Kanor (tr. Lynn E. Palermo), Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben (tr. Kevin Attell), The Emperor by Makenzy Orcel (tr. Nathan H. Dize)

Book: The Harmattan Winds by Sylvain Trudel (tr. Donald Winkler)

New arrivals. There's always room for more books! #seagullbooks @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

‘I thought femininity was something that could be learned’: Antiboy by Valentijn Hoogenkamp The unique challenge that arises when one attempts to write about what it feels like when the experience of gender fails to conform with cultural and societal expectations is rooted in the problem …

‘I thought femininity was something that could be learned’: Antiboy by Valentijn Hoogenkamp #SeagullBooks #PrideList roughghosts.com/2024/12/31/i...