Poetry. TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY is a collection of poems intimately related to music, cities, and the insightful perceptions of a peripatetic speaker. The reader is led through different historical, socio–cultural, and political happenings and contexts by a keen observer. Sirkin reveals treasures in what we might otherwise take for granted and deem as mundane: a conversation at a bar, a plumber at work, cold winters in Buffalo, mornings with family reading the Cincinnati Enquirer, dealing with bureaucracy when crossing the Juárez–El Paso border, the Ohio River in the late nineteenth century, going through LPs, and more. Music appears interwoven throughout the book as a kind of soundtrack, including songs by Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bing Crosby, among others.

Travelers Aid Society

Literature & Fiction

Sirkin, Jeff

Poetry

Veliz Books

Poetry. Translation. Latino/Latina Studies. TOUCHING THE LIGHT OF DAY: SIX URUGUAYAN POETS is a bilingual anthology of poems by well–known 20th–century Uruguayan poets. Save for the occasional soccer–related news, Uruguay is seldom featured in the media and little more than a name in the minds of most readers. The same happens with the greater part of its writers, very few of whom have been translated into foreign languages. This substantial anthology, drawing from the work of some of the country's most beloved poets, attempts to remedy that omission, presenting a vibrant and luminous selection that takes the reader from lush poems inspired by the classical antiquity to austere and introspective urban pieces deeply rooted in the local culture—with much more in between. Ably and sensitively translated by Laura Chalar, a contemporary Uruguayan writer, and accompanied by insightful introductions by the Uruguayan scholar Gerardo Ferreira, the works in TOUCHING THE LIGHT OF DAY: SIX URUGUAYAN POETS offer an exciting opportunity to visit, via its literature, a country too often overlooked by travelers and readers alike. Contributors: Julio Herrera y Reissig, Susana Soca, Alfredo Mario Ferreiro, Líber Falco, Pedro Piccatto, and Humberto Megget.

Touching the Light of Day: Six Uruguayan Poets

Chalar, Editor Laura

Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Scott Spanbauer. LA PARRILLA by Adolfo Pardo is the account of a young woman detained and tortured during the Pinochet dictatorship. It was originally published in 1981 with the intention of bringing awareness to what was happening in Chile at the time. Now for the first time in English, THE GRILL, is an important historical document that relates the atrocities of this dictatorship. According to the editor, critic, and essayist Vicente Undurraga, "the story's merit, what gives it interest that goes beyond its documentary value, is its non-accusatory, but instead descriptive nature, and its less ideological and Manichean than human (too human) plot."

The Grill

Pardo, Adolfo

History & Criticism

Poetry. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING is a collection of poems that takes us through urban and personal landscapes. It shows us particular landmarks of New York, as well as a particular New York, one lived through the experience of a speaker that boldly expresses anecdotes of all hues. This is a book about her relationship with a place that has been appropriated into a personal space. The reader is privy to the negotiations that take place in the construction of relationships. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING is an honest and gritty book that invites us to experience the connection between the self, the spaces we inhabit, and the people who share these spaces with us. "Just as her 'earliest hands dug for light in wet sand,' Tina Cane's lyric reveries uncover the treasured details of a youth steeped in New York's once-marginalized neighborhoods. Note the tensions in her 'minor histories,' for example, the self-deprecating resolve that asserts the nobility of cultural experiences we recognize as our own even in the exactness of Cane's personal vision. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING is a mesmerizing debut come to dignify our most worldly passions."—Gregory Pardlo

Once More With Feeling

Cane, Tina

Poetry. Spanish Only. LGBTQIA Studies. LA ISLA DE TU NOMBRE (THE ISLAND OF YOUR NAME) is the Mexican poet Gabriela Aguirre's fourth poetry collection. A book where the vulnerability of the speaker is revealed to show the details of the everyday.

La isla de tu nombre

Aguirre, Gabriela

Fiction. "Trent D. Hudley is a brave, new writer with great compassion and haunting vision. Reading the stories of ONE OF THESE DAYS, we enter the dreamlike gates of purgatory and are witness to great eruptions of sadness, rage, and joy. Hudley's nuanced portraits explore the depths of the human psyche and shed light on our limitless capacity for grief and hope." —Tyrone Jaeger

One of These Days

Hudley, Trent D.

United States

Poetry. HISTORY OF GONE is a collection of poems inspired by the life and unsolved disappearance of Barbara Newhall Follett, a once-famous child prodigy writer of the early 20th century. In the introduction, Schmeidler writes, "She's a woman we've never heard of destined to be the Next Great American Writer," who, by the age of 14 has published two books to glowing reviews. After a series of life-altering events (her father leaves; she and her mother set sail on an open-ended sea voyage; she falls in love), what begins as promise turns to uncertainty. "Because it's the Depression and she needs money. Because she's a woman. Because she's a writer. Because her editor father is no longer guiding her work into the hands of publishers. Because she falls in love. Because she travels, this time to Europe, this time with a man. Because she marries. Because she wants more, and also nothing more, than to be outside. Because all writing is in sand." All that is known of what happens is that one December night in 1939, after arguing with her husband, she leaves the house with a notebook and $30. She is never seen or heard from again. She is 25. "A daring conceptual feat of reanimated biography, HISTORY OF GONE arrives in its forms of oblique memorial drenched in lyric imagination: 'Everywhere you look there's a finger bone of some gone woman.' Schmeidler's rich lexicons frame intimate interior geographies--swoop and silhouette, beatitude and gingerbread, planets and wolfhounds--all the while replaying the 'stolen reel' of a forgotten life. As the lavish particulars unfold--a mouthbrooder, an anhinga, a purse dehisced--these poems invite charged questions about autonomy, creativity, and self-effacement: 'What kind of play is she in, 'finished by a death' or 'ended by a marriage'?' A cautionary tale of the erasures of domesticity, a vocational fable, an inside-out bildungsroman, this book envisions the prismatic possibilities when the self makes a 'clean sneak,' and the result is nothing short of levitation." --BK Fischer

History of Gone

Schmeidler, Lynn

Fiction. Latinx Studies. Translated by Ana Patete. "An original and dazzling road novel that invites us, alongside its protagonist, to traverse the imagination's landscape, the language of dreams, and the rituals of childhood. Everything in it, beginning with the journey itself, is an entrance to another astonishing trajectory, the constant flow of verbal intuition: that which opens itself up naturally to the children's gaze, and that, with the passing of time (that other journey), some of us achieve preserving in our adult intimacy. In her aesthetic discoveries, Inés Bortagaray has best conserved the narrative tradition of Felisberto Hernández and Mario Levrero, rigorous in its inquisitiveness, its ludic strength, and its rich and inimitable strangeness."--Carlos Yushimito

Ready, Set, Go

Bortagaray, Ines

Fiction. Spanning two continents, BLACK WINGS is the story of Laila and Yasmeen, a mother and daughter, struggling to meet across the generations, cultures, and secrets that separate them. Their shared grief, as well as the common bond of unhappiness in their marriages, allows them to reconnect after seventeen years of frustration, anger and misunderstandings.

Black Wings

Sarwar, Sehba

Poetry. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. Tina Cane's new collection of poems, BODY OF WORK, fuses the personal and the political as it explores the nature of work, poetry, economics, and motherhood. BODY OF WORK is a meditation on memory and change: the changing landscape of the inner and outer life, of family and city, and the nature of personal and cultural identity. Cane reflects upon the "continual mysteries" of her Chinese-American heritage and the complexities of being a person in the world with others.

Body of Work

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