Hank Lazer’s Thinking in Jewish in Jacket2
We’re gratified to see so many reviews and essays concerning Lavender Ink and Diálogos books in recent days. Here is one, on Hank Lazer’s Thinking in Jewish, by Ariel Resnikoff at Jacket2. Resnikoff opens with: Hank Lazer’s shape-writing walks a very narrow bridge, which is — as the Hasidic mystic, Reb Nahman of Breslov teaches […]
A Novel of London reviewed by Vesna Goldsworthy in Asymptote
The international literary journal Asymptote has recently published an extensive review of Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London. This essay by international best-selling author Vesna Goldsworthy is a crash course in Crnjanski, as well as a knowledgable analysis of Will Firth’s translation: Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London (1971) is one of the key works of twentieth […]
The Murderous Sky reviewed by Joyce Zonana
Check out this amazing review of Rosemary Daniell‘s The Murderous Sky, by Joyce Zonana at Feminism and Religion: …Cixous reminds us that “we need the books that hurt us,” books that “strike us like terrible events,” written by writers who “play with fire . . . sometimes go as far as catching fire, as far […]
Diálogos at NOPF
The live (well, Zoom) event at the New Orleans Poetry Festival was Sunday, April 25, 2 PM CDT, when Diálogos Presented Readings from Recent Translations and Roundtable on Translating Experimental Works. This reading/roundtable featured poets and their translators, with bilingual readings and discussions of the works and the translation process. On hand: Giancarlo Huapaya and […]
The New Orleans Poetry Festival returns
Lavender Ink / Diálogos is proud to be one of the founding organizers of The New Orleans Poetry Festival. The fest returns after a one-year Covid hiatus with a full month of online programming this April. The opening event features a hybrid performance of readings from the new anthology I Am New Orleans, and programming […]
The Murderous Sky Reviewed at Like the Dew
Steve Croft has posted an engaging and thorough review of Rosemary Daniell‘s The Murderous Sky at Like the Dew. Croft writes: Throughout these poems that move from the idyllic-seeming promise of childhood to the speaker’s children’s too often harrowing experiences of adulthood, it becomes quickly clear that we are in a realm of literature approached […]
Huapaya Reviewed at KR
“Huapaya’s poetry overwhelms; the words and images build against each other until they create the walls of their own world,” says Katherine M. Hedeen of Giancarlo Huapaya‘s Sub Verse Workshop. Hedeen reviews SVW and other works of interest in the March 2021 edition of Kenyon Review‘s Micro Reviews.
Rodger Kamenetz Zoom Reading
Check out this reading with Rodger Kamenetz, as well as Kit Robinson and Rodrigo Toscano. March 24, 7 PM CDT. REGISTER NOW FOR THE ZOOM
Hank Lazer reading from COVID19 SUTRAS
Hank Lazer reading from COVID19 SUTRAS, Ernest & Hadley virtual event, Sept 3, 2020, featuring excepts from the work followed by Q&A.
Discovering a new world…
“Pure incomprehensible jibberish” is how a Goodreads reviewer classified Nabile Farès’ Exile and Helplessness, one of the three novels collected in the trilogy just released by Diálogos, Discovery of the New World. Despite this chilly reception on Goodreads, we consider the release of this work—for the first time in English, and for the first time […]
Michael Clayton interview and review
An interview with Michael Clayton and review of Dead Roosters and Other Stories is up at Trueself. An excerpt: Dead Roosters and Other Stories – recently published by Lavender Ink – is a striking collection of hardscrabble lives and dreams deferred. When I read Michael Clayton’s debut collection Larry Brown came to mind. In fact, […]
Two New Interviews
Two extensive and informative interviews have recently been published with Lavender Ink / Diálogos author/translators. First, Leslie Tate begins an interview with Mark Statman on the topics of Exile Home, fatherhood, translation, Mark’s move into happy exile from Brooklyn to Oaxaca, and most everything else. Part 1 of a long interview. Next, please […]
Hank Lazer reviewed by John Yau
John Yau’s thoughtful and thorough review of Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS on the Massart blog: COVID19 SUTRAS is full of tenderness, empathy, anger, despair, sadness — the ping-pong ball of feelings bouncing this way and that. Lazer, in his isolation, slows down all of this so he can examine these states of being, while attempting […]
Amanda Boyden at the National Post
Amanda Boyden’s memoir, I Got the Dog: A Memoir of Rising is the topic of a front page article—an interview by Laurie Gough—in Canada’s National Post this morning. Read the article in the National Post: “Rape, infidelity and the detonation of a marriage: Novelist Amanda Boyden’s tumultuous life has led to new memoir”
Agadir reviewed at Kenyon Review
With his explosive style, surrealist imagery, and political critique, Khaïr-Eddine was among the most important avant-garde writers of his generation. Translators Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak forge a biting idiom in English to convey the apocalyptic world of Agadir, as well as the creative violence of its language. A substantial introduction by Khalid Lyamlahy serves […]
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