Poetry's Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations

Katherine M. Hedeen & Zoë Skoulding, editors

Organized around the translators (rather than the poets), with essays discussing the poetics and politics of their translations, this ground-breaking anthology forms unruly geographical lines of connection rather than underscoring existing national canons—shaping new understandings of contemporary poetry’s transnational commitments.

Featuring some of the most prominent poet-translators from both sides of the Atlantic, Poetry's Geographies radically foregrounds the role of translators as bridge-builders and activists, with a crucial role in revealing the structures through which poetry moves and circulates.

As poet-translator Zoë Skoulding writes in her introduction, this book presents the art of translation as a "chance to live in the multiplicity of languages and the spaces of relation that it opens up."