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“I know Pettibon despises the punk rock connection his work always conjures up. In an interview with the website Culture Creature, he unequivocally states, ‘I never considered my work part of the punk scene or music scene of any sort. It held me back. It's still something that is kind of hard to conceive… It's buried in time as being such a part of my background the way that people seem to think so. It really wasn't in the first place.’ According to other interviews with him that I’ve read, the people involved in the L.A. punk scene were anti-intellectual and had little to no interest in books, especially the zines he was producing.”

Twice a month, SPD recommends 20 new titles we just can't keep our hands/eyes off. But there are so many older gems that still make us feel the love, so we're swinging the light back each month to ten books that continue to rock our world. Maybe they'll rock yours too...Thus we bring you our first installment of SPD Recommends *Backlist*:

1. The Thorn - David Larsen

"It's an obsessive, super intelligent, highly promising work, and an often beautiful one." -Publishers Weekly

2. The Essence Of Reparations - Amiri Baraka

From the publisher: "THE ESSENCE OF REPARATIONS is Baraka's first collection of four daring essays looking at reparations for African-Americans, for the crimes of slavery, linking reparations to greater political, economic and social development, and the writer's ideas about democratic transformation in the USA."

3. Black Life - Dorothea Lasky

"Her poems are so good they make me gasp." - Robert Dewhurst

4. My Walk With Bob - Bruce Boone

Dennis Cooper calls it "a seminal and perfect work," and for Camille Roy it is "a founding document, and the brilliant record of an opening in writing."

5. Story Of The Eye - Georges Bataille

"a dirty book by an unhappy Frenchman." - John Wray

6. gowanus atropolis - Julian Talamantez Brolaski

"Julian's deviance is a hazard of poems which bend the muscle of light." - CAConrad

7. ALICE WALKER BANNED - Alice Walker

"In response to outrage from Christian conservatives, the California State Board of Education (BOE) removed in 1994 two short stories by Alice Walker from its California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) exam, which was adopted to allow children of all backgrounds a 'level playing field.' One of the stories, "Roselily," an interior monologue of a poor, Mississippi girl (an unwed mother) as she is being married and taken away to Chicago like chattel, was deemed 'anti-religious.' The other story, "Am I Blue?," is an allegory of slavery told by a narrator observing the treatment of a horse; the story's ending holds emotional associations of eating animal products with cruelty and was thus marked 'anti-meat-eating.'" -Library Journal Review

8. Drunkard Boxing - Linh Dinh

"The poems of DRUNKARD BOXING growl, astound, chill. 26 of some of the most stunning and stirring short poems I have read to date, bending form to illustrate conflict in perfectly imprecise confrontational language. Foremost, however, it is clear that the poems in DRUNKARD BOXING possess what I felt I had otherwise been missing: subject matter that is interesting, revelatory, and difficult."-Patrick Herron

9. HANNAH WEINER'S OPEN HOUSE - Hannah Weiner

"HANNAH WEINER'S OPEN HOUSE beckons us into a realm of poetry that bends consciousness in order to open the doors of perception." -  Charles Bernstein

10. Elements - Robert Glück

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Lit & Found: David Larsen on Translation ‘As a Constraint-based Form of Writing’

As part of a series on poetry and translation for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books blog, scholar and translator of pre-modern Arabic literature David Larsen delves into the conjunction that joins translation with poetry, the and between them. He writes: In my view, the poetics of translation is an ethos that takes the form of a constraint. The translator is free to say anything at all, as…

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David Larsen’s Translation of ‘Names of the Lion’ Wins Harold Morton Landon Award

The 2018 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award — selected by Ammiel Alcalay — has gone to David Larsen’s brilliant translation of Ibn Khalawayh’s Names of the Lion, which was published last year:

This $1,000 annual award, established in 1976, recognizes a poetry collection translated from any language into English that was published in the previous calendar year. Each year, a noted translator…