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Back in 2021 our very own Marty Hiatt published his translation of Nathalie Quintane's Tomatoes + Why doesn't the far left read literature? with Kenning Editions. The detail is in the footnotes.

Lauded French poet Nathalie Quintane's TOMATOES, written at the height of the infamous Tarnac affair, is a book of "integrated critique," a form a literary non-fiction that prefers anecdote to theory. In TOMATOES, it turns out that the banalities of municipal politics, book festivals and vegetable gardening are saturated with all the latest advances in state repression. Quintane's irony makes demands, puts something at stake, attempts to "couple more intimately an intention in the form of a sentence and an intention in the form of a life." And the intentions are insurrectionary, anti-capitalist, and poetic. Translator Marty Hiatt couples the book with Quintane's essay WHY DOESN"T THE FAR LEFT READ LITERATURE?--a question Juliana Spahr, in her foreword wondering what "American literature" means anymore, contextualizes thus: "something that appears to be about being French but is also about being American and yet is not global." That something is finally just the trade in letters made to console when things get "tricky, irritating, unbearable." For Anglophone readers, this book offers a challenge, where "the only truly interesting books are the ones the police read? And it sends sales figures through the roof!" But what to do with "the desire to produce truth, for real?"

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NAVIGATIONS / Issue One

online now at navigationsjournal.com

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Thank you:

Patrick Durgin
Elizabeth Flood
Shane Moritz and Dustin Junkert
Nicole Quarles
Lish Ciambrone
Marta Núñez Pouzols
Chanelle Allesandre and Greg Afinogenov
Yixiao Yao
Anna K. Crooks
Rachel Cloud Adams

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🔥🔥🔥 An incredibly inspiring evening last night celebrating the release of Firespitter: The Collected Works of Jayne Cortez from @nightboat_books.

Thanks to the readers who breathed new life into her work through their readings and for reminding us all that we're links in a very long chain of individuals resisting facism and white supremacy throughout history.

And thank you to the lovely crowd and always to the incredible folk at Pilsen Community Books! A beautiful night.

#jaynecortez #firespitter #chicagoreading

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🔥🔥TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!🔥🔥

"Jayne Cortez is an energy, a nourishment, a Black Nation song." Gwendolyn Brooks

Poets from across Chicagoland will come together at Pilsen Community Books to uplift the work of visionary Jayne Cortez and the release of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez . Poet, performing artist, publisher, and activist, Cortez remains widely celebrated for her political, surrealist, and dynamic innovations in language, lyricism, and visceral sound.

Exhibit B and Nightboat Books are hosting a night that will feature performances from Faylita Hicks, Cai Sherley, Elizabeth Marino, Patrick Durgin, and Joseph Spece.

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Sharing a few recent favorites and classics from these outstanding publishers who have committed to PACBI, or the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. PACBI aims to draw a line between culture workers and the actions of governments funding and endorsing Israel's genocide in Gaza. You can learn more about PACBI from @wawog_now at the link in our bio.

Angry that your tax dollars are going to fund the genocide? Want to do something about it? Join the @illinoisdivest coalition tomorrow at 7 pm for a teach-in on Illinois’ growing divestment campaign and how to get involved. Illinois Divest demands the end of our pension funds and tax dollars being invested in genocide and advocates for community decision making power over investments.

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Segue Foundation and Roof Books have arranged to acquire selected backlist of Kenning Editions (1998-2024) and keep the titles in print through our new distributor, Independent Publishers Group. Kenning Editions are now available to order from IPG via Roof Books. Link in the bio!

@kenningeditions

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1. Francis Ponge, from "Les mûres" (LE PARTI PRIS DES CHOSES, 1942)

2. trans. Cid Corman (THINGS: SELECTED WRITINGS, White Pine Press, 1986)

3. trans. Beverley Bie Brahic (UNFINISHED ODE TO MUDE, CB Editions, 2008)

4. trans. Joshua Corey & Jean-Luc Garneau (PARTISAN OF THINGS, Kenning Editions, 2016)

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#ponge #francisponge #poetry #french #translation #blackberries #fruit #ripe #foodlit #culinarymatters #foodways #foodstudies #criticalfoodstudies #cidcorman #beverleybiebrahic #joshuacorey #jeanlucgarneau

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>> REPRINT
Miyó Vestrini
Grenade dans la bouche
trad. @claraelisabz

À nouveau disponible en librairie

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La vie de Miyó Vestrini, née à Nîmes en 1938, tôt immigrée au Venezuela et suicidée en 1991, est une révolution.

Un mouvement qui s’ouvre, s’accomplit et se clôt dans la détonation, engageant le corps de la poétesse et toute son oeuvre que ce livre, une anthologie, tente de traverser en lui conservant son intonation particulière : brièveté, netteté, gravité.

Contemporaine des avant-gardes artistiques vénézuéliennes, la poésie de Miyó Vestrini, sèche et destructrice, ironique et délicate, est à la mesure d’une existence, de ses appronfondissements (le féminisme, l’amour et les amitiés politiques) et de ses révoltes (l’esseulement, le suicide et les deuils).

Grenade dans la bouche est la première traduction de Miyó Vestrini en français. Livre-vie parcourant trente ans d’écriture, il retrouve la prolixité et la variété des situations ou des scènes d’écriture de « la Sylvia Plath vénézuélienne ».

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Título / Title (@kenningeditions 2019)

Llegando a Viena de noche directo a la lectura en @poesiegalerie junto a Udo Kawasser

las pajas que me hago esperando a Godot huelen a jurel en salsa de tomate

sin tomate y sin aceite y sin albahaca y sin fuego lento y sin fuego alto

emocionalmente peores que las pajas a las dos de la mañana

con deseos de tocar el timbre de todas las puertas de mi edificio

y en cada puerta pedir un fósforo para encender la cocina

cada uno de los días de este año en que se conmemora mi treinta aniversario

mentiría si afirmara que las pajas de la espera son capaces de alegrarme

volverme una mujer con tomate y con aceite y con albahaca

y sin dudas con jureles en todas partes del cuerpo de la mente y del espíritu

mentiría si afirmara que al mover un dedo despacio rápido despacio

se me olvida lo que tengo que hacer en lo adelante

mentiría si mi espíritu supone que algún día

de este año sorprendente en que se conmemora algo ya dicho en otras líneas

Godot regresará siendo el mismo y siendo todo lo que yo necesitaba

5 de noviembre de 2022

https://youtu.be/MKbZe1uO6kM

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MAGAmerica votes today. Litmus test on 🇺🇸 white nationalism Palestine 🇵🇸 & so much more. Seems a good day to post the Z poem from my abecedarian sequence on January 6, “WINTER,” kindly available as a free PDF chapbook from Kenning Editions (and recently reprinted in the fantastic Australian mag Rabbit: A Journal of Nonfiction Poetry.) Read it here: https://www.kenningeditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/WINTER_pages.pdf

#election #electionday #maga #magamerica #vote #voting #american #november5 #poetry

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