Andrew Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3991654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Motherfield by Julia Cimafiejeva
Reviewed by: Motherfield by Julia Cimafiejeva Andrew Singer JULIA CIMAFIEJEVA Motherfield Trans. Valzhyna Mort & Hanif Abdurraqib. Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2022. 128 pages. OUR SOCIOPOLITICAL WORLD is hemorrhaging; when an adroit poetic spirit on the front line documents it with such candor, rigor, and talent, we are best served by paying attention. Belarusian poet Julia Cimafiejeva's first collection in English, Motherfield, begins with a "protest…
The Forbidden Door
Reviewed by: The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg by Lasse Söderberg Andrew Singer LASSE SÖDERBERG The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg Trans. Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché. Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2022. 200 pages. THIS VOLUME IS a wonder. Drawn from nineteen books of poetry (out of the more than thirty he's published since 1955), The Forbidden Door represents a major English-…
My Seven Lives
Reviewed by: My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová by Jana Juráňová and Agneša Kalinová Andrew Singer Jana Juráňová & Agneša Kalinová My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová Trans. Julia Sherwood & Peter Sherwood. West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University Press. 2021. 456 pages. SOME LIVES ARE iconic; such is the case with Czechoslovakian intellect Agneša Kalinová (1924–2014), whose persona…
Valzhyna MortMusic for the Dead and Resurrected
editors, wishy-washy critics, unambitious readers, and authors lacking in talent but greedy for fame.” That quote might be a worthwhile point of departure for reading the book since it clearly establishes a point of view Ugrešić has not only on the world of literature but on a multitude of issues. Written between 2014 and 2018, the essays leave very few people and issues unscathed. Her book deals very much with displacement, exile, and statelessn…
Ioana IeronimLavinia and Her Daughters
0 rambling at their captive audience. This is not a plot-driven novel. It drifts in multiple directions and is anchored only by its setting . Some readers may find themselves left at its conclusion unsure of a point beyond the author’s own homesick recollections, though maybe that’s the point. Some may, like the character Angie, notice the impression of an unseen, harmonious world that’s further out than the novel’s horizon allows. Michael Kazepi…
The Cities of Giorgio de Chirico / OraÅele lui Giorgio de Chirico by Constantin Severin
0 sure, but also for its resonances that affirm how similar are the concerns that occupy us all. The metaphorical cherry on top is that Mizumura is an exquisite storyteller, and hers is a story well worth reading. Erik R. Lofgren Bucknell University Tove Alsterdal We Know You Remember: A Novel Trans. Alice Menzies. New York. HarperCollins. 2021. 356 pages. WE KNOW YOU REMEMBER is the second novel by Swedish writer Tove Alsterdal to be translated …
Poems from the Edge of Extinction
women. From Chistiane, a longtime friend of Hortense who endures ineffable abuse and cruelty from the titular militants, to Mam’Soko, a village elder undisturbed by the war pressing against the edge of her property, the tales of these characters are concise and clear. Some passages, such as Christiane’s recollection of her life in PointeRouge , feel a bit too comprehensive and, as a result, verge on damaging the realism of the narrative device, H…
Burhan SönmezLabyrinth by Ümit Hussein
lips, leaving everything else to the imagination . Similarly, the story focuses on the lovers’ passion, evoking in a few sentences the entire life of a once-famous man now defeated, tormented, unrecognizable to his close friends, and a stranger to himself. Alice-Catherine Carls University of Tennessee at Martin Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers Ed. Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton. Seattle. University of Wash…
The Heart of a Stranger
Salo is joined by other refugees from various attacks orchestrated by the Yerezis’ malefactor and the warlord Dark Sun, with chapters regularly switching perspectives to tell an engaging story of young people growing into adulthood and newfound powers. With Scarlet Odyssey, Rwizi has written a novel that is expertly plotted, incredibly well thought out where magical and cultural systems are concerned, and also quite bloody. While not as literaril…
CoDex 1962 by Sjón
and much, much more. They learned that there are some one hundred books published each year, comprising all the literary genres; that Frisian music includes classical , pop, folk, opera, hard rock, ballads, hymns, and more; that the more universal poetry by Frisian poets like Obe Postma and Tsjêbbe Hettinga has been translated into English; that best-selling prose authors like Rink van der Velde and Hylke Speerstra have been translated into Engli…
László KrasznahorkaiBaron Wenckheim's Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming Trans. Ottilie Mulzet. New York. New Directions. 2019. 576 pages. It is revealing to consider why this book fails so spectacularly—especially given the sustained astonishment László Krasznahorkai’s previous novels evoke, notably Satantango and Seiobo There Below. Satantango, Krasznahorkai’s 1987 debut, was an act of giddy, laconic defiance not only of literary convention but also wildly in the fac…
The Joyous Science
Ruth Behar Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guardé Trans. Ruth Behar. Chicago. Swan Isle Press (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2018. 99 pages. Born in Havana, Cuba, but raised in Florida , Ruth Behar explores the poetics of identity, not only as a Cuban living in exile but as a minority within a minority, with deeply treasured traditions of Sephardic Judaism. Presented in both English and Spanish, Behar’s lyric prose poems possess a deeply …
The White Chalk of Days
moments in From Lone Mountain as John P. (as he is known to his legions of fans) discovering his dad saying the word “roof” in exactly the same apparently unusual way he does, and I found myself imagining the sound as I read his recounting of the incident. It probably vaguely rhymes with “hoof,” not with “goof,” as most people I know would say it. I love those sorts of regional dialect variations, and Porcellino is well traveled enough to have st…
Panorama by Rawley Grau
characters or deep, multilayered analysis of its events but rather taking its readers on a long and widespread journey to this faraway time and place. If you approach The Gardens of Consolation with such a mind-set, you are in for a beautiful tour de force of a novel. Raha Namy University of Denver Dušan Šarotar. Panorama. Trans. Rawley Grau. London. Peter Owen / Istros Books. 2016. 200 pages. This deeply engaging work traces the intersection of …
Breathing into Marble by Marija Marcinkute
WORLDLIT.ORG 89 Featured Review Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė. Breathing into Marble. Trans. Marija Marcinkute. Nottingham, United Kingdom. Noir Press. 2016. 183 pages. Epilepsy and psychosis, depression and lust, aging, poverty, betrayal, violence, and the mystery of the human spirit—beset, struggling , breaking, moving on—these are dead category words in the face of this strikingly alive novel. Everything here is slant: we are feeling it, experie…
Quiet Flows the Una
in the literary canon of twentieth-century Europe, and Newman’s new translation will certainly boost its chances. Sarah Warren University of North Texas Faruk Šehić. Quiet Flows the Una. Trans. Will Firth. London. Istros Books. 2016. 193 pages. When a trauma as perverse, crushing, and searing as the extended, violent breakup of one’s nation occurs, it can take the most sensitive of souls a generation or longer to compress this experience, gain ho…
An Orchid Shining in the Hand
World Literature in Review practices in a fascinating fashion that can be disturbing but friendly and identifiable at the same time. Will H. Corral San Francisco Verse Lorenzo Calogero. An Orchid Shining in the Hand: Selected Poems, 1932–1960. Trans. John Taylor. New York. Chelsea Editions. 2015. 427 pages. To dip into this volume, with its splendid translator’s introduction, is first to connect withavitalItalianpoetictradition.Although Lorenzo C…
Emanations
character defects.” The text is interspersed with little moments of genuine openness such as this, highlighting the importance of not only self-awareness but also an oftenforgotten truth—that in order to construct new worlds, one must be willing to do the often-painful work of unlearning the ways of the old. Dunbar-Ortiz’s Outlaw Woman is an essential read for anyone on the periphery of society who yearns to resist the status quo. It is an even m…
Bright Scythe
all over the city. The reading experience, on the other hand, decidedly has the feel of crossing a river—in the steady, eloquent flow of the narrative poem, people’s gestures, the names of time-bound objects, or turns of phrase determined by the age or class of the speaker sometimes give the impression of objets trouvés, flotsam and jetsam, emerging and inviting us to stop and take a good look at the reality that surrounds us. Ágnes Orzóy Budapes…
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Emanations
character defects.” The text is interspersed with little moments of genuine openness such as this, highlighting the importance of not only self-awareness but also an oftenforgotten truth—that in order to construct new worlds, one must be willing to do the often-painful work of unlearning the ways of the old. Dunbar-Ortiz’s Outlaw Woman is an essential read for anyone on the periphery of society who yearns to resist the status quo. It is an even m…
Bright Scythe
all over the city. The reading experience, on the other hand, decidedly has the feel of crossing a river—in the steady, eloquent flow of the narrative poem, people’s gestures, the names of time-bound objects, or turns of phrase determined by the age or class of the speaker sometimes give the impression of objets trouvés, flotsam and jetsam, emerging and inviting us to stop and take a good look at the reality that surrounds us. Ágnes Orzóy Budapes…
Quiet Flows the Una
in the literary canon of twentieth-century Europe, and Newman’s new translation will certainly boost its chances. Sarah Warren University of North Texas Faruk Šehić. Quiet Flows the Una. Trans. Will Firth. London. Istros Books. 2016. 193 pages. When a trauma as perverse, crushing, and searing as the extended, violent breakup of one’s nation occurs, it can take the most sensitive of souls a generation or longer to compress this experience, gain ho…
An Orchid Shining in the Hand
World Literature in Review practices in a fascinating fashion that can be disturbing but friendly and identifiable at the same time. Will H. Corral San Francisco Verse Lorenzo Calogero. An Orchid Shining in the Hand: Selected Poems, 1932–1960. Trans. John Taylor. New York. Chelsea Editions. 2015. 427 pages. To dip into this volume, with its splendid translator’s introduction, is first to connect withavitalItalianpoetictradition.Although Lorenzo C…
Panorama by Rawley Grau
characters or deep, multilayered analysis of its events but rather taking its readers on a long and widespread journey to this faraway time and place. If you approach The Gardens of Consolation with such a mind-set, you are in for a beautiful tour de force of a novel. Raha Namy University of Denver Dušan Šarotar. Panorama. Trans. Rawley Grau. London. Peter Owen / Istros Books. 2016. 200 pages. This deeply engaging work traces the intersection of …
Breathing into Marble by Marija Marcinkute
WORLDLIT.ORG 89 Featured Review Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė. Breathing into Marble. Trans. Marija Marcinkute. Nottingham, United Kingdom. Noir Press. 2016. 183 pages. Epilepsy and psychosis, depression and lust, aging, poverty, betrayal, violence, and the mystery of the human spirit—beset, struggling , breaking, moving on—these are dead category words in the face of this strikingly alive novel. Everything here is slant: we are feeling it, experie…
The Joyous Science
Ruth Behar Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guardé Trans. Ruth Behar. Chicago. Swan Isle Press (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2018. 99 pages. Born in Havana, Cuba, but raised in Florida , Ruth Behar explores the poetics of identity, not only as a Cuban living in exile but as a minority within a minority, with deeply treasured traditions of Sephardic Judaism. Presented in both English and Spanish, Behar’s lyric prose poems possess a deeply …
The White Chalk of Days
moments in From Lone Mountain as John P. (as he is known to his legions of fans) discovering his dad saying the word “roof” in exactly the same apparently unusual way he does, and I found myself imagining the sound as I read his recounting of the incident. It probably vaguely rhymes with “hoof,” not with “goof,” as most people I know would say it. I love those sorts of regional dialect variations, and Porcellino is well traveled enough to have st…
CoDex 1962 by Sjón
and much, much more. They learned that there are some one hundred books published each year, comprising all the literary genres; that Frisian music includes classical , pop, folk, opera, hard rock, ballads, hymns, and more; that the more universal poetry by Frisian poets like Obe Postma and Tsjêbbe Hettinga has been translated into English; that best-selling prose authors like Rink van der Velde and Hylke Speerstra have been translated into Engli…
László KrasznahorkaiBaron Wenckheim's Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming Trans. Ottilie Mulzet. New York. New Directions. 2019. 576 pages. It is revealing to consider why this book fails so spectacularly—especially given the sustained astonishment László Krasznahorkai’s previous novels evoke, notably Satantango and Seiobo There Below. Satantango, Krasznahorkai’s 1987 debut, was an act of giddy, laconic defiance not only of literary convention but also wildly in the fac…
Poems from the Edge of Extinction
women. From Chistiane, a longtime friend of Hortense who endures ineffable abuse and cruelty from the titular militants, to Mam’Soko, a village elder undisturbed by the war pressing against the edge of her property, the tales of these characters are concise and clear. Some passages, such as Christiane’s recollection of her life in PointeRouge , feel a bit too comprehensive and, as a result, verge on damaging the realism of the narrative device, H…
Burhan SönmezLabyrinth by Ümit Hussein
lips, leaving everything else to the imagination . Similarly, the story focuses on the lovers’ passion, evoking in a few sentences the entire life of a once-famous man now defeated, tormented, unrecognizable to his close friends, and a stranger to himself. Alice-Catherine Carls University of Tennessee at Martin Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers Ed. Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton. Seattle. University of Wash…
The Heart of a Stranger
Salo is joined by other refugees from various attacks orchestrated by the Yerezis’ malefactor and the warlord Dark Sun, with chapters regularly switching perspectives to tell an engaging story of young people growing into adulthood and newfound powers. With Scarlet Odyssey, Rwizi has written a novel that is expertly plotted, incredibly well thought out where magical and cultural systems are concerned, and also quite bloody. While not as literaril…
Valzhyna MortMusic for the Dead and Resurrected
editors, wishy-washy critics, unambitious readers, and authors lacking in talent but greedy for fame.” That quote might be a worthwhile point of departure for reading the book since it clearly establishes a point of view Ugrešić has not only on the world of literature but on a multitude of issues. Written between 2014 and 2018, the essays leave very few people and issues unscathed. Her book deals very much with displacement, exile, and statelessn…
Ioana IeronimLavinia and Her Daughters
0 rambling at their captive audience. This is not a plot-driven novel. It drifts in multiple directions and is anchored only by its setting . Some readers may find themselves left at its conclusion unsure of a point beyond the author’s own homesick recollections, though maybe that’s the point. Some may, like the character Angie, notice the impression of an unseen, harmonious world that’s further out than the novel’s horizon allows. Michael Kazepi…
The Cities of Giorgio de Chirico / OraÅele lui Giorgio de Chirico by Constantin Severin
0 sure, but also for its resonances that affirm how similar are the concerns that occupy us all. The metaphorical cherry on top is that Mizumura is an exquisite storyteller, and hers is a story well worth reading. Erik R. Lofgren Bucknell University Tove Alsterdal We Know You Remember: A Novel Trans. Alice Menzies. New York. HarperCollins. 2021. 356 pages. WE KNOW YOU REMEMBER is the second novel by Swedish writer Tove Alsterdal to be translated …
My Seven Lives
Reviewed by: My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová by Jana Juráňová and Agneša Kalinová Andrew Singer Jana Juráňová & Agneša Kalinová My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová Trans. Julia Sherwood & Peter Sherwood. West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University Press. 2021. 456 pages. SOME LIVES ARE iconic; such is the case with Czechoslovakian intellect Agneša Kalinová (1924–2014), whose persona…
Motherfield by Julia Cimafiejeva
Reviewed by: Motherfield by Julia Cimafiejeva Andrew Singer JULIA CIMAFIEJEVA Motherfield Trans. Valzhyna Mort & Hanif Abdurraqib. Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2022. 128 pages. OUR SOCIOPOLITICAL WORLD is hemorrhaging; when an adroit poetic spirit on the front line documents it with such candor, rigor, and talent, we are best served by paying attention. Belarusian poet Julia Cimafiejeva's first collection in English, Motherfield, begins with a "protest…
The Forbidden Door
Reviewed by: The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg by Lasse Söderberg Andrew Singer LASSE SÖDERBERG The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg Trans. Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché. Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2022. 200 pages. THIS VOLUME IS a wonder. Drawn from nineteen books of poetry (out of the more than thirty he's published since 1955), The Forbidden Door represents a major English-…
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