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Dignity Not Detention Anthology | ed. Katie Farris & Jenny Minniti- Shippey | Bilingual Edition * Poetry

 

 Release: Feb. 1st, 2021

 

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 Calypso Editions is honored to present the poems of these brave refugees and detainees alongside poets from outside detention in this new anthology, with a special afterword by Ilya Kaminsky, who judged the 2019 #DignityNotDetention prize. All poems have been translated from and into some of the languages spoken at Otay Mesa Detention Center. All proceeds from the sale of the limited print run will be donated via Allies to End Detention to detainee accounts at Otay Mesa Detention Center. Edited by Katie Farris & Jenny Minniti- Shippey.

 

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The Child Who | Jeanne Benameur | Translated by Bill Johnston

 

Fiction · French

 


Release: May 1st, 2020

 

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In gorgeous poetic prose, The Child Who interweaves the stories of three members of a family in an unnamed French village: a boy whose mother has disappeared, and who wanders the forest in the company of a dog, fixing his memories of his mother in his mind; his father, a cabinetmaker, who cannot find the words to express his anger and his sense of abandonment; and the boy’s grandmother, providing for her son and grandson, who has her own story to tell. This intimate, luminously imagined group portrait introduces a stunning new voice to English-language readers.

 

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Where the Angels Lived | Margaret McMullan

Nonfiction · English

Release: May 1st, 2019

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“Margaret McMullan has written a beautiful and heartrending account of her pilgrimage to Pécs, Hungary in the hope of retrieving what she can of the story of a distant (Jewish) relative, lost in the Holocaust. Written with her usual vividly realized, emotionally engaging prose, in which Margaret emerges as a protagonist with whom the reader identifies, Where the Angels Lived is a powerful testament of familial mourning as well as a vision of 20th century European history that is both searing and uplifting.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

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After the Tour | Jennifer Minniti- Shippey

Poetry · English · Contemporary

Release: November, 2018

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After the Tour is an astonishing collection that gives us both the clear view of terrifying world we have made and the beautiful, lyrical song of love that guides us out of this misfortune. Combining the spell of the story and the memorable, image-laden, musical, lyric voice, this book gives us an America that is both private and public, gives us the poet who is whispering and singing at the top of her lungs, gives us tenderness and fury, politics and intimacy, rhapsody and elegy, all in one collection which in the end becomes one long poem about the life we have made, about the song we can hope to make of it, about the hurt that here becomes that very song. Bravo.”
Ilya Kaminsky

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Wild Geese Sorrow | Translated by Jeffrey Thomas Leong

Poetry · Translation

Release: March 1st, 2018

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“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced, affecting, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice to the Angel Island poets, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”
–David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace

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Speak, My Tongue | Carrie Meadows

Poetry · English · Contemporary

Release: September 2017

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“Between the ideas of “Why I Go to Church” and “Leaving the Church” is a “God Sent the [shot] Gun” shattering of spiritual paint and paint cans. Meadows wanders with and without aim into the lives of the self-taught artists and teaches each of us, carefully, like a Southern quilt-maker, grandmother teaching quilt-stitches to sing. So go find your favorite Southern front porch rocking chair, a glass of sweet Southern ice tea, and listen. Speak, my Tongue is a song.”

— Earl Edward S. Braggs

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My Mother, Resurrected | Fabián Casas, translated by Adriana Scopino

Poetry · English · Translation · Bilingual · Spanish

Release: April 2017

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“That Fabián Casas’ work is so little known in America baffles. A magnificent welder of tonal registers, of the mundane and the philosophical, Casas teaches us, with humor and self-deprecating nonchalance, how ‘not to live in fear,’ co-habit with the departed, ‘bed with the flowers in the mouth of the wind,’ experience the darkness as ‘resplendent/against the red Coca-Cola machine.'”

— Mihaela Moscaliuc

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Moods & Women & Men & Once Again Moods: An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Erotic Poetry ed. Ruxandra Cesereanu

Poetry · English · Translation

Release: December 2016

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“What emerges here is a phantasmagoric, often magical erotica, a surrealism of the body & the mind that directs it, as conveyed by a generation of poets experiencing the possibility of a newly opened poetics of liberation. The resultant work is a revelation of what poetry can do when unleashed, in its most radical forms, to imagine & to reflect the fullest panoply of human needs & desires. As it comes to us here in America, it is also a great pleasure to read & to absorb, from cover to cover.”

—Jerome Rothenberg

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Blue Structure | Jan Freeman

Poetry · English

Release: August 2016

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“In this strangely beautiful and long-awaited collection, Jan Freeman again brings her rich, lyric gift to bear on human connection, ‘the value of proximity.’ Fragmentary, elegiac, and rife with secrets, illuminated with a taut and exquisitely aching intimacy reminiscent of the poems of H.D., Blue Structure inhabits ‘the iambs of longing’ that compel us to love despite loss and instruct us in the beauty of mourning.”

— Michael Waters

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While Everything Slipped Away From Me | Erika Lutzner

Poetry · English

Release: April 2016

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While Everything Slipped Away From Me is a story about grief, love and loss. It speaks of unbearable tragedy. This is a collection of lyrical poems about the aftermath of 9/11. How can one go on when one loses the love of one’s life? This collection delves into that question. Perhaps out of grief something beautiful can grow.” —Nin Andrews

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Lullaby for a Hanged Man | Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki (trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood)

Fiction/Translation · English

Lullaby C1Release: December 2015

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“This Icelandic-Polish book has the feel of a friend’s handshake. It is seared with the brand of memory; a joyful epitaph to passing away, to letting go; a paean to dreaming, a successful attempt at capturing moments for eternity.” —Roman Kurkiewicz

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Morasses | André Gide (trans. Tadzio Koelb)

Fiction/Translation · English

Release: August 2015

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Andre Gideʼs early satirical work, Morasses, can be looked at as a historical curiosity, an allegory of literary Paris—of nineteenth century salons and a quaintly seductive, if frequently silly and petty, vision of the arts.” – John Reed

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Aftermath Lounge | Margaret McMullan

Fiction · English

Release: March 2015

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“Aftermath Lounge is a beautiful, compelling collection, the emotions as powerfully charged as the winds of a hurricane.”

–Jill McCorkle,  Life After Life

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Ilona. My Life with the Bard | Jana Juráňová (trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood)

Fiction/Translation · English

Ilona coverRelease: December 2014

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Ilona: My Life with the Bard is a tribute to the women who, although gifted and courageous, were expected to find fulfilment in housework, family, embroidery or, in the best-case scenario, in presenting or representing their husbands. The book’s lyrical passages, rich in local and historical detail, take us on a well-informed tour of the late 19th and early 20th century, a period that is not as distant from the present as it may seem.”

—Ivica Ruttkayová, The Daily Pravda

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Stomach of the Soul | Sylva Fischerová (translated by the author, Stuart Friebert, and A. J. Hauner)

Poetry/Translation · Czech & English edition

Release: September 2014

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Sylva Fischerová (born 1963) is one of the most formidable Czech poets of her generation. A distinguished classicist who teaches at Charles University in Prague, she writes poetry with a vivid imagination as well as an historical reach.

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Ocosingo War Diary: Voices from Chiapas | Efraín Bartolomé (trans. Kevin Brown)

Non-fiction · English

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Release: June 2014

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Efraín Bartolomé, a poet from Chiapas, lived through the entire beginning of the Zapatista uprising in 1994. His family, like many in the village of Ocosingo, received death threats from the Zapatista guerrillas who demanded they join them at risk of being declared enemies of the Revolution.

This book, equal parts poetry and diary, is his account of that conflict.

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The Little Trilogy | Anton Chekhov (trans. Boris Dralyuk)

Fiction/Translation · Russian & English edition

the Little TrilogyRelease: January 2014

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About the Author: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is universally regarded as a master of the short story, and nowhere is his rich contribution to the genre on fuller display than in the so-called Little Trilogy (1898): “The Man in a Case,” “Gooseberries,” and “About Love.” These interconnected stories reflect the entire range of his gifts, his ability to hold comedy in balance with tragedy, to wrest beauty from ugliness, and to transform the pathetic into the sublime. Written rather late in his career, the Little Trilogy also serves as a kind of artistic autobiography, charting the evolution of his own approach to story-telling from humorous caricature, to Tolstoyan sentimentality, to a uniquely Chekhovian study of “individual cases,” in which generalities are dispensed with and judgment is withheld.

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Athanor & Other Pohems | Gellu Naum (trans. Martin Woodside and MARGENTO)

Poetry/Translation · Romanian & English edition

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Release: October 2013

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One of Romania’s most important poets and a key figure in the surrealist movement, Gellu Naum remains almost entirely unknown to English speaking audiences.  Sampling some of Naum’s best work from a unique literary career spanning over more than 60 years, this collection offers a long overdue introduction to one of the greatest figures in 20th century European poetry.

About the Author: Gellu Naum (1915-2001) is one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century and one of the most important names in the history of Romanian literature. His one-of-a-kind surrealism defied both Communist propaganda and escapist aestheticism while leaving an indelible imprint on generations of Romanian non-conformist poets and artists.

 

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City That Ripens on the Tree of the World | Robin Davidson

Poetry · English

City That Ripens On The Tree Of The WorldRelease: February 2013

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Robin Davidson’s City That Ripens on the Tree of the World is a cycle of twenty-seven poems emerging out of her time in Krakow, Poland, and conceived as a response to poet Ewa Lipska’s figure, Mrs. Schubert, a kind of European “every woman” of modernity. Through the creation of an equivalent persona (Mrs. Schmetterling), she explores poetry as the uncertain intersection of personal and historical forces—what Lipska might call the accident or “the spectacle of our lives,” which one both participates in and observes as witness.

About the Author: Robin Davidson is co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska of The New Century: Poems (Northwestern Uni­versity Press), from the Polish of Ewa Lip­ska.

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Froth: Poems | Jarosław Mikołajewski (trans. Piotr Florczyk)

Poetry/Translation · English

Froth - Jarosław MikołaJewskiRelease: February 2013

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Froth gathers thirty-two of Jarosław Mikołajewski’s best poems, which Ilya Kaminsky calls “contemporary European poetry at its best: tender, unpredictable, a hymn, a love poem, a moment of laughter, of revelation,” while Adam Zagajewski writes, “Mikołajewski’s poems are kicking, running, appealing to us, readers. His poems live.”

About the Author: Jarosław Mikołajewski is a Polish poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator from the Italian. His ten volumes of poetry have been met with wide acclaim both in Poland and abroad. Jarosław Mikołajewski lives in Warsaw.

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Use | Derick Burleson

Poetry · English

Release: May 2012

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Built from a list of 600 words commonly used in the English language according to the frequency with which they appear in printed material, Use is an edgy reflection on our word choices and their hierarchies in modern American English.  Each poem is made from a section of Dr. Frye’s 1990 word list, in the order in which the words were presented on the list. This technique has never been used before in the writing of a book of poems.

About the Author: Derick’s Burleson’s first book, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94 won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He was a recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Derick is our northernmost cooperative member, living in Two Rivers, Alaska, and is Director of the Creative Writing program at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

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The Moonflower King | Anthony Bonds

Fiction · English

Release: February 2012

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Dreams and memories are as real as waking life in Bonds’ The Moonflower King.

When Ash Moone learns that his twin brother Oscar’s botched suicide attempt has left him confined to a wheelchair, he is forced to leave his life as a writer in Brooklyn for the family’s dilapidated emu ranch in a remote East Texas town.

At first a reluctant caretaker, Ash must confront the old faces that inspired his first book, and soon learns the true depth of his family’s dark legacy.

As Oscar’s continued obsession with death threatens to ruin both of their lives, Ash must either abandon his brother or risk his own humanity to make peace between them.

“What a strange and wonderful little book this is. When Ash Moone goes home to the small town of Vatican, TX, after his brother’s failed suicide attempt, he is drawn back into a world where reality defers to dreams, and truths are only thinly veiled fictions. Bonds manages, in this slim novella, to create a captivating world where mythology and madness reign. I loved every quirky character in this story: each one is authentically flawed but also endowed with a certain amount of grace. And the ties that bind the Moone family together, though damaged by shared sorrows, are tenacious as vines all the same.”

T. Greenwood, author of Nearer Than the Sky and Two Rivers

About the Author: Anthony Bonds is a writer and book designer. He works as a publishing editor in San Diego where he lives with his wife.

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the vanishings & other poems | Elizabeth Myhr

Poetry · English

Release: September 2011

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A debut collection, the vanishings & other poems enters history, imagination and spirit and reminds us of what endures behind the fractured and anxious foreground of contemporary life.

“Nearly a Zen koan—this poet uses language to explore the limitations of language.  With exquisite delicacy, her poems echo “the left hand of thunder” during concerts by “incomparable orchestras of rain.”  Revived, we visit ‘a country // where the ancient loneliness restores itself.’  By turns passionate, curious, vivid, and mysterious, these poems shine like ‘the tiger of starlight / no bars no cages.'” —Peggy Shumaker

About the Author: Elizabeth Myhr, a founding member of Calypso Editions, is a poet, editor and freelance product development manager. She holds an MFA in poetry from Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her family.

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Of Gentle Wolves: An Anthology of Romanian Poetry | Martin Woodside, Trans.

Poetry/Translation · Romanian & English

 

Of Gentle Wolves: An Anthology of Romanian PoetryRelease: July 2011

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Amidst a history of upheaval, from Roman subjugation to the fall of communism in 1989, Romania’s fostered a persevering spirit and a strong poetic tradition. “Every Romanian is born a poet,” goes a popular idiom, and Of Gentle Wolves: An Anthology of Romanian Poetry aims to bring the very best of the country’s contemporary poets together in a single volume.

About the Translator: Martin Woodside’s poetry chapbook Stationary Landscapes came out in 2009 (Pudding House Press), and he spent 2009-10 on a Fulbright in Romania. He lives with his family in Philadelphia where he’s pursuing a PhD in Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden.

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Building the Barricade and Other Poems | Anna Swir (trans. Piotr Florczyk)

 

Poetry/Translation · Polish & English

 

Release: March 2011

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“William Blake was inclined to see human sins as phases through which humans pass and not as something substantial. In . . . Anna Swir there is a similar empathy and forgiveness.”

Czesław Miłosz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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How Much Land Does a Man Need | Leo Tolstoy (trans. Boris Dralyuk)

 

Fiction/Translation · Russian & English

 

Release: December 2010

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The greatest story that the literature of the world knows.”

James Joyce

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