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Liliane Giraudon's SPHINX practically drips with the blood of its enemies. It's delicately marbled, like good meat. One of experimental French writing's most powerful and most undersung figures, Giraudon was born in Marseille in 1946. Working across prose and poetry--sometimes, too, between writing and drawing--Giraudon's work is difficult to pin down. Enigmatic without ever being coy, Giraudon's operational field is a mythic space, anchored in the classical past but firmly on the side of the living and our problems. "A dramatization of the present," Giraudon writes in one of the poems, "Not History." Lindsay Turner's translation renders perfectly the excruciating intimacy of these hypnagogic, fabular poems.

Drama. Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. In this farce set on a hijacked containership on its way to Magnetic Island, Julian Assange attempts to "reboot" a troupe of DEAD YOUTH--teenagers from all over the globe who have died in violent circumstances from sweatshop labor to environmental poisoning to war--but must grapple with two other would-be hijackers: a young Somali pirate and a female Antoine de St-Exupery. Described by its author as a "badly- wired allegory," DEAD YOUTH, OR, THE LEAKS brings to manic light the veiled violence that makes life in capitalism possible.

Poetry. African American Studies. Philosophy. Essays. Now available as a second edition with a new preface from the author, Will Alexander's TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD (O Books, 1998) is a work of "vertical philosophy" revealing the strata of cultures and language, like geographical layers seen all at once. These essays comprise Alexander's "search for origins outside the warrens of the visible," revealing a singular imagination that moves with the force of a manifesto and the impossible dexterity of the unknown. Described by Eliot Weinberger as "probably the only African-American poet to take Aime Cesaire as a spiritual father," Alexander's singular voice resonates far past the constrictions of the rational world.

"Vibrating with rich imagery rooted in Fathy's long experience in film, this is a distinctly urban poetry that demands accountability while also offering compassion rooted in deep listening-to the body, to history, to others-and to the ongoing conversation that is the attentive life. The I and the you at the heart of this collection continually shift and overflow to encompass a vigorous humanity. A riveting work that gives English readers new access to this important voice in contemporary Arabic poetry in all its great range. - Cole Swensen It is refreshing to witness the publication of Where Not to Be Born, a bilingual edition that not only reaffirms Rawad Wehbe's expertise in translation but also offers Arabic readers the opportunity to embrace the potent sonic resonance of Safaa Fathy's elegant and enigmatic constellated images-an alchemical transformation of song, pain, and imagery into polyvalent poetry. This collection encapsulates Safaa Fathy's cinematographic and philosophical renderings, while tenderly celebrating humanity's capacity for revolt. She navigates the currents of language, swimming through depths while also fiercely resisting its constraints: "Perhaps I might speak in another language so as not to put names onto things, things that rotate around the axis of their names." - Ghazal Mosadeq"--

"Another Room to Live In is an archive of encounter: a multilingual conversation between fifteen poet-translators, connected through friendship, correspondence, and cross-diasporic gatherings. With work in English, Arabic, and French, the collection moves beyond both language and nation-state, investing instead in transcontinental dreamspaces. Here, translation practices collaboratively transform the poems and reflect the poets' own experiences of "living" in multiple languages. Complicating any flat conception of identity, the poems presented here seek to revisit and challenge foundational narratives, to rework mythologies, and to do all this through a cross-generational process of translation as poetic communion"--