{"product_id":"transversal-poems-paperback","title":"Transversal: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUrayoán Noel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransversal\u003c\/i\u003e takes a disruptive approach to poetic translation, opening up alternative ways of reading as poems get translated or transcreated into entirely new pieces. In this collection, Urayo n Noel masterfully examines his native Puerto Rico and the broader Caribbean as sites of transversal poetics and politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring Noel's bilingual playfulness, intellect, and irreverent political imagination, \u003ci\u003eTransversal\u003c\/i\u003e contains personal reflections on love, desire, and loss filtered through a queer approach to form, expanding upon Noel's experiments with self-translation in his celebrated collection \u003ci\u003eBuzzing Hemisphere\/Rumor Hemisf rico.\u003c\/i\u003e This collection explores walking poems improvised on a smartphone, as well as remixed classical and experimental forms. Poems are presented in interlocking bilingual versions that complicate the relationship between translation and original, and between English and Spanish as languages of empire and popular struggle. The book creatively examines translation and its simultaneous urgency and impossibility in a time of global crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransversal\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to disrupt standard English and Spanish, and it celebrates the nonequivalence between languages. Inspired by Caribbean poet and philosopher  douard Glissant, the collection celebrates Caribbean practices of creolization as maximalist, people-centered, affect-loaded responses to the top-down violence of austerity politics. This groundbreaking, modular approach to poetic translation opens up alternative ways of reading in any language.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrayoán Noel is a Puerto Rican poet, performer, translator, and critic living in the Bronx, New York. He is an associate professor in the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728831057983,"sku":"9780816541805","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8e356ac1667822f48812770710dff662.webp?v=1765119943","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/transversal-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}