Escritoire Reviewed Far and Wide
View in Bookstore Escritoire Sheila E. Murphy Sheila E. Murphy’s Escritoire continues to garner thoughtful reviews. Check out these samples and links. Daniel Barbiero writes in Arteidolia: …Murphy reaches out into the world and playfully acknowledges and accepts it for what it offers. She pays close attention to the ordinary, which in the right […]
Review of Rafael Alcides, Havana’s Neighborhood Poet, in Zyzzva.
View in Bookstore Poet in the Neighborhood Rafael Alcides “A momentous collection of poems about struggle and resistance,” says Danielle Shi about this collection, selected and translated by Pablo Medina. Read the entire review in Zyzzva. And check out the book itself here. On sale through October 15, 2025. In Poet in the Neighborhood, Rafael […]
sympathy for the salami longlisted for NTA!
sympathy for the salami, our selection from Belgrade’s punk-inspired, brutally honest and beautifully lyrical, Milena Marković, translated by Steven Teref & Maja Teref, has been longlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. Susanna Lang says of the collection, “Whether she is describing wild parties or delirium tremens, a love affair or her grandfather grabbing […]
Celebrating Women in Translation
August is Women Writers in Translation month, and to honor that we’ve prepared a selection of Diálogos women authors in translation. Ranging from France to Croatia to Tunisia to Spain and South America, we’re very proud of this collection. Click here to view Diálogos Women Writers in Translation Until September 15, use coupon code wit30 […]
Arrabal’s famous letter
View in Bookstore Letter to General FrancoFernando Arrabal Want to know the history of that famous salute? Here for the first time in English, one of the great anti-fascist documents of the 20th century, Fernando Arrabal‘s Letter to General Franco, translated by Peter Thompson. Not a polemic but a sensitive and respectful document that works […]
Diálogos presents Stéphanie Chaillou & Sandra Moussempès, with translators Laura Mullen, Carrie Chappell, and Amanda Murphy
Video of the Zoom presentation; readings by poets and translators of our two recent launches by French feminist poets. Quick links to the book pages: Cassandra at point-blank range, by Sandra Moussempès, Translated by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy something happens, by Stéphanie Chaillou, Translated by Laura Mullen
Stéphanie Chaillou
something happens Stéphanie Chaillou Translated by Laura Mullen Diálogos presents, this season, two compelling new books from France in the work of Sandra Moussempès and Stéphanie Chaillou, whose something happens, translated by Laura Mullen, is just released. If you find something happens haunting, as we did, you will be in good company: Stéphanie Chaillou’s something happens is a […]
20 years of Hank Lazer’s essays
View in Bookstore What Were You Thinking, Essays 2006-2024Hank Lazer Just released, from Hank Lazer, twenty years of essays (2006-2024) on contemporary poetry and poetics exploring spirituality, ethics, and international perspectives through talks and exchanges in China and Cuba, with interviews exploring Lazer’s innovative poetry and poetics. What Were You Thinking is a companion volume to the […]
Cassandra up close
Cassandra at point-blank range Sandra Moussempès Translated by Amanda Murphy, Carrie Chappell Diálogos is excited to announce the first full-length translation of revered French feminist poet Sandra Moussempès. Winner of the Théophile Gauthier Prize from the French Academy, Cassandra at point-blank range weaves the voices of heroines including Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley, Cindy Sherman, Gaspara Stampa, […]
Courtney Bush makes A Movie
A MovieCourtney Bush Courtney Bush’s A Movie, a book-length poem written in sentences, explores the ways movies are woven into the fabric of a life, as cultural products, as objects of intimacy, as social touchstones, as an ideal, as shorthand for certain kinds of experience, while also telling the story of the poet’s production of an […]
Leopoldo María Panero
View in Bookstore The Death of PoetryLeopoldo María Panero Diálogos is proud to release a new collection of poetry by Spanish surrealist Leopoldo María Panero, in a translation by Arturo Mantecón. At 326 large format pages, The Death of Poetry represents a major retrospective of the mad genius’s work. Born in 1948, Panero was the […]
Phaeton’s Wheels Rollout
Winner of last year’s Faulkner-Wisdom Prize, Dennis Formento‘s Phaeton’s Wheels takes us to Italy and takes us to New Orleans as the poet explores his roots in these two places via his sharp, neo-Beat, sensibility, paying homage to poetic forebears along the way, as in this tribute to New Orleans legend Tom Dent: For Tom […]
Placing Joy at the Helm
“Lambert’s writing points to the prison bars and walls, attempts to pry them apart or pull them down…” says translator John Taylor in his engaging and informative introduction to Of Desire and Decarceration, the new Diálogos release which collects, in their entirety, Belgian Francophone poet Charline Lambert‘s first four books. (You can read Taylor’s complete […]
Serena Piccoli and William Allegrezza collaboration
Prunes and Prisms, a bilingual (Italian and English) collection of original work by two poets reaching across the ocean, is a correspondence in the Spicerian sense, a reaching toward a counterpart. Begun in the height of the pandemic, William Allegrezza and Serena Piccoli aim their poetic discourse at topics ranging from politics to meaning. Here […]
Ralph Adamo’s All Fall Down
“I like poems that explore complexity. And ambiguity. / Often while appearing to speak plainly,” writes Ralph Adamo, and his new collection, All Fall Down, Poems 2020-2024, does indeed speak plainly to the complex ambiguities of our current condition. Take this short poem near the beginning of the collection: On a Beautiful Spring Day a […]
Meet Eucalyptus
Lavender Ink is proud to be releasing, this month, I and Eucalyptus, prose poems and photographs by Susan M. Schultz. These 20 pieces, based on walks to a particular eucalyptus tree, encompass a wide range of philosophical meditations, engaging often with Martin Buber’s I and Thou, and are accompanied by striking full-color photos of this […]
Bird Shadows: Book of the Month at Reading Greece
Diálogos has just released a comprehensive selection of work by revered Greek poet Veroniki Dalakoura, selected, introduced and translated by John Taylor. Bird Shadows Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose 1967-2020 includes selections from all Dalakoura’s eight books, beginning with a selection of her precocious first poems, which she began to write when she was fifteen […]
Flores Raras
With Flores Raras: escondido país Diálogos presents its first title in Spanish language only. This important collection of Uruguayan women poets born before 1940 has been a runaway best-seller in Uruguay. We are now releasing the book in the US to expand the audience for this important collection. Beginning with Petrona Rosende (1797-1863) and culminating […]
Belle Adelman-Cannon remembrance and book release for Every Time They Call Me She, June 4
A shot of the audience at Blue Cypress Books June 4, 2024, for the release of Every Time They Call Me She. Over the course of their seventeen years, Belle Brock Adelman-Cannon excelled at a variety of pursuits, including languages (French, Hebrew, German), dance, fashion design, gardening, and writing. They attended International School of Louisiana, […]
One from Nicolas
Yellow Otherwise, by Nicolas Pesquès, translated by Lee Posna, presents the 17th book of Nicolas Pesquès’ monumental La face nord de Juliau, bringing this important French poet a step closer to the recognition he deserves and has already achieved in France. His long series of poetic meditations on Mount Juliau in the Ardèche region of […]
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