Life in Space
Rymbu, Galina
Vertaald door: Joan Brooks
Ugly Duckling Presse, 232 blz., paperback, 2020, ISBN 9781946433329
Vertaald door: Joan Brooks
Ugly Duckling Presse, 232 blz., paperback, 2020, ISBN 9781946433329
Life in Space is translated by Joan Brooks, and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein and Kevin M.F. Platt, and Anastasiya Osipova (with Marijeta Bozovic, Catherine Ciepiela, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Pavel Khazanov, Mila Nazyrova, Eugene Ostashevsky, Val Vinokur, and Michael Wachtel), and a preface by Eugene Ostashevsky.
Galina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution, movement in time and space, life, and livelihood emerge. Rymbu seeks a radical feminist and leftist poetics that does not condescend to the oppressed, but rather embraces the complexity of every emotion and political position, and of language itself. She opens her poetry to the violence of propaganda, biopolitical manipulation, ideological pressures, as well as the violence of personal intimacy. Life in Space is Rymbu’s first full-length collection in English translation and includes poems selected from her three books as well as more recent work.
Galina Rymbu was born in 1990 in the city of Omsk (Siberia, Russia) and lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She edits F-Pis’mo, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory, as well as Gryoza, a website for contemporary poetry. She is the co-founder and co-curator of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for emerging Russian-language poets. She has published three books of poems in Russia: Moving Space of the Revolution (Argo-Risk), Time of the Earth (kntxt), and Life in Space (NLO). Her essays on cinema, literature, and sexuality have appeared on Séance, Colta, Your Art, and other journals. English translations of her work have appeared in The White Review, Arc Poetry, Berlin Quarterly, Music & Literature, n+1, Asymptote, Powder Keg, and Cosmonauts Avenue, as well as in the chapbook White Bread (After Hours Editions). Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages and stand-alone collections of her work have been published in Latvian, Dutch, Swedish, and Romanian.
"Galina Rymbu's poetic core is rock-hard. The untranslatable knot of post-Soviet violence and inequality—political, sexual, and economic—is loosened by her voice of supersensual empathy and restless analysis. Daring and surprising in every poem, Life in Space is the arrival of a new major poet."
- Valzhyna Mort
"Life in Space probes what it would mean to inhabit space and time collectively, as what we have in common. Its singular poetics is a materialist and speculative poetics of this kind of inhabitation — and the publication of this volume in English is a genuine event."
- Los Angeles Review of Books
Galina Rymbu was born in 1990 in the city of Omsk (Siberia, Russia) and lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She edits F-Pis’mo, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory, as well as Gryoza, a website for contemporary poetry. She is the co-founder and co-curator of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for emerging Russian-language poets. She has published three books of poems in Russia: Moving Space of the Revolution (Argo-Risk), Time of the Earth (kntxt), and Life in Space (NLO). Her essays on cinema, literature, and sexuality have appeared on Séance, Colta, Your Art, and other journals. English translations of her work have appeared in The White Review, Arc Poetry, Berlin Quarterly, Music & Literature, n+1, Asymptote, Powder Keg, and Cosmonauts Avenue, as well as in the chapbook White Bread (After Hours Editions). Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages and stand-alone collections of her work have been published in Latvian, Dutch, Swedish, and Romanian.
"Galina Rymbu's poetic core is rock-hard. The untranslatable knot of post-Soviet violence and inequality—political, sexual, and economic—is loosened by her voice of supersensual empathy and restless analysis. Daring and surprising in every poem, Life in Space is the arrival of a new major poet."
- Valzhyna Mort
"Life in Space probes what it would mean to inhabit space and time collectively, as what we have in common. Its singular poetics is a materialist and speculative poetics of this kind of inhabitation — and the publication of this volume in English is a genuine event."
- Los Angeles Review of Books
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