What’s coming to Lavender Ink/Diálogos
Cicatrices du Soleil (Sun Scars), poetry by the revered Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by Jake Syersak, in French and English. The Flight to Samarkand, memoir/novel by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by Allan Johnston and Guillemette Johnston. Animal for the Eyes by the popular young Mexican poet Kania Cano, translated by Indran Armithanayagam. Escritoire, new […]
Rafael Alcides, Havana’s Neighborhood Poet, edited & translated by Pablo Medina
View in Bookstore Poet in the Neighborhood Rafael Alcides In Poet in the Neighborhood, Rafael Alcides, one of Cuba’s most important poets, renders in verse the mood and rhythm of life from the 20th to 21st centuries—its everydayness punctured by exceptional moments of splendor, crisis, and oblivion. Selected by Pablo Medina, an esteemed Cuban American poet […]
20 years of Hank Lazer’s essays
View in Bookstore What Were You Thinking, Essays 2006-2024Hank Lazer Just released, from Hank Lazer, twenty years of essays (2006-2024) on contemporary poetry and poetics exploring spirituality, ethics, and international perspectives through talks and exchanges in China and Cuba, with interviews exploring Lazer’s innovative poetry and poetics. What Were You Thinking is a companion volume to the […]
Arrabal’s famous letter
View in Bookstore Letter to General FrancoFernando Arrabal Want to know the history of that famous salute? Here for the first time in English, one of the great anti-fascist documents of the 20th century, Fernando Arrabal‘s Letter to General Franco, translated by Peter Thompson. Not a polemic but a sensitive and respectful document that works […]
Courtney Bush makes A Movie
A MovieCourtney Bush Courtney Bush’s A Movie, a book-length poem written in sentences, explores the ways movies are woven into the fabric of a life, as cultural products, as objects of intimacy, as social touchstones, as an ideal, as shorthand for certain kinds of experience, while also telling the story of the poet’s production of an […]
Leopoldo María Panero
View in Bookstore The Death of PoetryLeopoldo María Panero Diálogos is proud to release a new collection of poetry by Spanish surrealist Leopoldo María Panero, in a translation by Arturo Mantecón. At 326 large format pages, The Death of Poetry represents a major retrospective of the mad genius’s work. Born in 1948, Panero was the […]
Phaeton’s Wheels Rollout
Winner of last year’s Faulkner-Wisdom Prize, Dennis Formento‘s Phaeton’s Wheels takes us to Italy and takes us to New Orleans as the poet explores his roots in these two places via his sharp, neo-Beat, sensibility, paying homage to poetic forebears along the way, as in this tribute to New Orleans legend Tom Dent: For Tom […]
Placing “Joy at the Helm”
“Lambert’s writing points to the prison bars and walls, attempts to pry them apart or pull them down…” says translator John Taylor in his engaging and informative introduction to Of Desire and Decarceration, the new Diálogos release which collects, in their entirety, Belgian Francophone poet Charline Lambert‘s first four books. (You can read Taylor’s complete […]
Serena Piccoli and William Allegrezza collaboration
Prunes and Prisms, a bilingual (Italian and English) collection of original work by two poets reaching across the ocean, is a correspondence in the Spicerian sense, a reaching toward a counterpart. Begun in the height of the pandemic, William Allegrezza and Serena Piccoli aim their poetic discourse at topics ranging from politics to meaning. Here […]
Ralph Adamo’s All Fall Down
“I like poems that explore complexity. And ambiguity. / Often while appearing to speak plainly,” writes Ralph Adamo, and his new collection, All Fall Down, Poems 2020-2024, does indeed speak plainly to the complex ambiguities of our current condition. Take this short poem near the beginning of the collection: On a Beautiful Spring Day a […]
Meet Eucalyptus
Lavender Ink is proud to be releasing, this month, I and Eucalyptus, prose poems and photographs by Susan M. Schultz. These 20 pieces, based on walks to a particular eucalyptus tree, encompass a wide range of philosophical meditations, engaging often with Martin Buber’s I and Thou, and are accompanied by striking full-color photos of this […]
Launching the salami…
Diálogos continues its exploration of contemporary Serbian poetry with the launch, this coming August, of sympathy for the salami, a selection of Belgrade’s punk-inspired, brutally honest and beautifully lyrical, Milena Marković, translated by Steven Teref & Maja Teref. Susanna Lang says of the collection, “Whether she is describing wild parties or delirium tremens, a love […]
Bird Shadows: Book of the Month at Reading Greece
Diálogos has just released a comprehensive selection of work by revered Greek poet Veroniki Dalakoura, selected, introduced and translated by John Taylor. Bird Shadows Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose 1967-2020 includes selections from all Dalakoura’s eight books, beginning with a selection of her precocious first poems, which she began to write when she was fifteen […]
Flores Raras
With Flores Raras: escondido país Diálogos presents its first title in Spanish language only. This important collection of Uruguayan women poets born before 1940 has been a runaway best-seller in Uruguay. We are now releasing the book in the US to expand the audience for this important collection. Beginning with Petrona Rosende (1797-1863) and culminating […]
Belle Adelman-Cannon remembrance and book release for Every Time They Call Me She, June 4
A shot of the audience at Blue Cypress Books June 4, 2024, for the release of Every Time They Call Me She. Over the course of their seventeen years, Belle Brock Adelman-Cannon excelled at a variety of pursuits, including languages (French, Hebrew, German), dance, fashion design, gardening, and writing. They attended International School of Louisiana, […]
One from Nicolas
Yellow Otherwise, by Nicolas Pesquès, translated by Lee Posna, presents the 17th book of Nicolas Pesquès’ monumental La face nord de Juliau, bringing this important French poet a step closer to the recognition he deserves and has already achieved in France. His long series of poetic meditations on Mount Juliau in the Ardèche region of […]
SPD
Lavender Ink and Diálogos were indeed affected by the sudden demise of Small Press Distribution, but perhaps less than some presses who depended on them solely. Lavender Ink and Diálogos books are available via variety of distribution methods, including direct sales from this website, and also via Asterism, who is now distributing our books to […]
One from Jeff
Poem from a Jumper Most people don’t live long enough to inhale water. There is no drowning at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, but there are fractured ribs almost every time, almost every rib, as if Adam himself could be shattered. Shards of bone travel like tiny scalpels, haphazardly pierce the spleen, the […]
One from Grzegorz
Melancholia the weather is uninspiringsexless and very graythe neighbors want a proofso I show them my bleeding finger(they recoil away from the keyhole)meanwhile some cathas caught an obese flythe kind that likes shitstrangled it and let it go indignantlyI don’t know this cator who he isalso there’s this constant scrapingso much scraping the whole […]
A Pushcart for Adrade/Levitin
“Winter Flame,” a poem from Eugénio de Andrade‘s Furrows of Thirst has been selected for this year’s Pushcart Prize and included in the just-released Pushcart Prize XLVIII. To commemorate, we’re offering Furrows at half price until January 31, 2024. Just use coupon code “pushcart” when ordering. Adeena Karasick’s Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings, with its stunning visualization […]
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