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Transversal: Poems
Contributor(s): Noel, Urayoán (Author)
ISBN: 0816541809     ISBN-13: 9780816541805
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback
Language: Spanish
Published: March 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Poetry | American - Hispanic American
- Poetry | Lgbt
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2020025726
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.9" W x 8.8" (0.48 lbs) 136 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Transversal 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.

Featuring Noel's bilingual playfulness, intellect, and irreverent political imagination, Transversal 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 Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisf rico. 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.

Transversal 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.