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The House of Thirst : MPT No.2 2018

Pollard, Clare(Edited by)
Part of the MODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION series
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MPT's summer issue `The House of Thirst' focuses on LGBTQ+ poetry, and includes translations of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Else Lasker-Schuler, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Friedrich Chernyshov's urgent poems about transgender lives in the Ukraine, 19th Century Kurdish poetry, and Jayan Cherian's `homoerotic big bang' in a new version by Richard Scott.

There is also an essay by Mary Jean Chan exploring `Queerness as Translation'.

Elsewhere in this issue: the Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, a major new poem by Polina Barskova translated by Valzhyna Mort, and a tribute to Menno Wigman.

All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

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Modern Poetry in Translation
1910485209 / 9781910485200
Paperback / softback
29/06/2018
United Kingdom
128 pages, 5
140 x 216 mm
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