Make it True Meets Medusario: A Bilingual anthology of Neobarroco & Cascadian Poets

"Make It True meets Medusario brings together poets from divergent languages, cultures, and aesthetics to create a...conversation...a fertile meeting place for ongoing ideas about poetry that might trouble the all too-easy academic labels and the subsequent segregation those aesthetic and political divisions cause within the larger, global poetry community." -From the book's introduction by Matthew Trease

This collaboration, spawned by two previous anthologies, includes the Spanish language poets of the Neobarroco school, as organized by Jos Kozer, a Cuban Neobarroco poet, together with poets from the Cascadia bioregion, arranged by Paul E Nelson, founder of the Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) and Thomas Walton, editor-in-chief of Pageboy Magazine, Seattle, WA.

Translated by Alejandro Carrillo and Dana Nelson; NEOBARROCO (Medusario) poets include: Carmen Berenguer, Marosa Di Giorgio, Roberto Echavarren, Eduardo Espina, Reynaldo Jim nez, Tamara Kamenszain, Jos Kozer, Pedro Marqu s de Armas, Maurizio Medo, N stor Perlongher, Soleida R os, Roger Santiv ez, and Ra l Zurita; CASCADIANS (Make It True) poets include: Stephen Collis, Elizabeth Cooperman, Sarah de Leeuw, Claudia Castro Luna, Nadine Maestas, Peter Munro, Paul E Nelson, John Olson, Shin Yu Pai, Clea Roberts, Cedar Sigo, Matthew Trease and Thomas Walton

Author: José Kozer
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
Published: 05/10/2019
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780912887876

About the Author
Walton, Thomas: - Thomas Walton is the author of The World Is All That Does Befall Us (Ravenna Press, 2019), a lyric essay written against lyric essays, and dealing with Gertrude Stein, grief, and parenthood. He is also author of the collaborative work (with Elizabeth Cooperman) The Last Mosaic (Sagging Meniscus, 2018), a poetic travel guide to Rome and Roman History. Recent work in Stringtown, Pontoon, and Rivet. He lives in Seattle WA where he edits PageBoy Magazine and runs a counseling center for neglected poets.Nelson, Paul E.: - Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993 SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Brenda Hillman & many others. Books include American Sentences, A Time Before Slaughter and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia and 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards. Paul is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion's Cedar River watershed and serves as literary executor for the late poet Sam Hamill.Kozer, José: - José Kozer, born La Habana, 1940. Has Lived in the USA since 1960. Taught at Queens College (CUNY) from 1965 to 1997 and then retired in Hallendale, Florida. He is the author of some one hundred books of poetry, a couple of prose, has been translated into many languages and studied extensively in dissertations in U.S. universities. In 2013 he received the Pablo Neruda Award from the Chilean government and in 2017 became a Montgomery Fellow.