Susan Smith Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 964432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Smith Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Smith |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH S S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Our Minds Are Porous and Forgetfulness Seeps In
The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (review)
Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda (review)
Delicates by Wendy Guerra (review)
Reviewed by: Delicates by Wendy Guerra Susan Smith Nash WENDY GUERRA Delicates Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson & Esperanza Hope Snyder. London. Seagull Press. 2023. 72 pages. TRANSLATORS Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder struggled to find a term that would capture the complexity of Cuban-born Wendy Guerra's collection of poems in Spanish. The original title, Ropa Interior, is typically translated as "underwear" or "undergarments." However,…
I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval (review)
Reviewed by: I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval Susan Smith Nash JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL I Want to Tell You Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. 80 pages. JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL’S poems in I Want to Tell You give rise to the possibility that abjection can apply to grief, as in the impossibility of processing the loss of multiple loved ones, colleagues, family members, and acquaintances. “We are dying all dying,” she writes, and wonde…
Claus and the Scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal
Reviewed by: Claus and the Scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal Susan Smith Nash LARA DOPAZO RUIBAL Claus and the Scorpion Trans. Laura Cesarco Eglin. Normal, Illinois. Co*Im*Press. 2022. 134 pages. AS A WORK WRITTEN in a nonhegemonic language, Galician, the set of poems in Claus and the Scorpion is implicitly about constructing a separate identity that withstands the ongoing risks of absorption, invisibility, or even potential extinction. Claus and th…
In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems. En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas. Ndaani' Gueela' ne xhupa diidxaguie' by Irma Pineda
Reviewed by: In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems. En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas. Ndaani' Gueela' ne xhupa diidxaguie' by Irma Pineda Susan Smith Nash Irma Pineda In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems. En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas. Ndaani' Gueela' ne xhupa diidxaguie' Trans. Wendy Call with the author. Illus. Natalia Gurovich. Mexico City. Pluralia Edicionese Impresiones. 2021. 160 pages. TO PUBLISH POETRY written …
The Invisible Borders of Time
Reviewed by: The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets ed. by Nidia Hernández Susan Smith Nash The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets Ed. Nidia Hernández Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2022. 174 pages. THE INVISIBLE BORDERS OF TIME is a bilingual compilation of poems by five highly regarded female Latin American poets: Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Piedad Bonnett (Colombia), Yolanda Panti…
Milongas by Edgardo Cozarinsky
Reviewed by: Milongas by Edgardo Cozarinsky Susan Smith Nash Edgardo Cozarinsky Milongas Trans. Valerie Miles. Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2021. 144 pages. BIRTHED IN THE brothels of Buenos Aires, and now heralded as emblematic of Argentine culture, the tango evolved from a fusion of the candomblé music from African slaves and music from European immigrants fleeing desperate conditions. The tango is part of the musical genre known as milonga. Th…
The New World Written
Reviewed by: The New World Written: Selected Poems by María Baranda Susan Smith Nash María Baranda The New World Written: Selected Poems Ed. Paul Hoover. Trans. Various. New Haven. Yale University Press. 2021. 255 pages. WHEN ASKED ABOUT her primary influences, María Baranda pointed to Lebanese poet Andrée Chedid for her “luminosity” and the textures of the work. Her reply may have surprised the interviewer, Fernando Valverde, who is the leader o…
Another End of the World Is Possible
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Rodrigo Márquez TizanoJakarta by Thomas Bunstead
move away, some living (they know) inauthentically, but—all the same— satisfied. Can teen infatuation lead to anything good? Will doubts erode satisfaction ? Questions that tease the mind into imagining—and reading—lives on other pages. Granted, some people are snapshots , diminished by irony. The twoyear -old who senses that he has lost control of the big people around him; the four-year-old trying to create order in the small world of his toys.…
Fernando ValverdeThe Insistence of Harm by Allen Josephs Laura Juliet Wood
inhabiting it. There are stories about love and loss endured by hashish dealers, perpetual misery in the form of endless traffic, and female oppression in the form of visa denials and cannibalism fetishes. There is a little something for everyone. The Book of Cairo is edited and introduced by Raph Cormack, a translator, editor, and author with a PhD in modern Arabic literature. Through his selected stories and their strategic positioning in the t…
Fabián SeveroNight in the North by Laura Cesarco Eglin Jesse Lee Kercheval
Lilia—wife, mother, and grandmother —lived “a good life among husbands, children, gardens.” She wants to erase these words as soon as she writes them. Luck makes a boring story. “The longer you live the more you appreciate those who bury their stories.” Her moods shift from humor to irritation as she watches her acquaintances pair up. Her late husband, Gilbert, believed in world peace and universal love. Even liking someone is hard for her. She t…
A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande
Books in Review Adel Esmat Tales of Yusuf Tadrus Trans. Mandy McClure. Cairo. American University in Cairo Press. 2018. 216 pages. It’s no accident that the epigraph to this novel is from Nikos Kazantzakis’s Report to Greco: “I said to the almond tree, ‘Speak to me of God.’” Kazantzakis’s book is a spiritual autobiography, which is short on facts but focuses on ideas, referring to the spiritual teachings of Christ and Buddha, Lenin and Odysseus. …
Kate ErvineCarbon
Books in Review Sinan Antoon 81 The Book of Collateral Damage Jacob M. Appel 101 Amazing Things Are Happening Here Chloe Aridjis 107 Sea Monsters Marcelo Báez Meza 98 Nunca más Amarilis: Bioficción definitiva de Márgara Sáenz Esthela Calderón 90 Los huesos de mi abuelo / The Bones of My Grandfather Chen Qiufan 95 Waste Tide Mona Dash 111 A Roll of the Dice Julie Delporte 104 This Woman’s Work Selahattin Demirtaş 89 Dawn Kate Ervine 78 Carbon Agus…
Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guardÃ(c) by Ruth Behar
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 …
Today / Hoy by Juan Gelman
Srividya Sivakumar The Heart Is an Attic Kolkata. Hawakal. 2018. 88 pages. Blessed are the ones with attics in their homes. For an attic is a rare construct that serves as a repository of bits and pieces of memory, which in a hectic life are treated as redundant. For Srividya Sivakumar, “the heart is an attic” as the title goes, but it becomes a storehouse of not only memories but also the new and immediate. One of them is a tchotchke, a trinket,…
Fracking Novels
The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisioning environmental destruction, governmental corruption, and more than one zombie apocalypse ending of the American Dream. Here, Susan Smith Nash, who is also a petroleum geologist, surveys how the unintended consequences of this controversial technology have driven the literary imagination of twenty-first-century novelists
Absolute Solitude by James O'Connor
in the background. Perhaps the sound of the oud or the gentle singing of a grandmother mixing ginger and tamarind in the kitchen . One can even envision the glossy red pomegranates or taste the rice, raisins, and okra that make humble appearances. One Hundred Hungers truly inspires readers to hunger for all the things that Camp details about the cultures within the text, leaving only anticipation, now, for her next book. Sarah Warren University o…
Lotera Jarocha
Sohrab Sepehri The Oasis of Now Kazim Ali & Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, tr. BOA Editions The Oasis of Now, the first publication of Sohrab Sepehri’s work in the United States, gathers works from three of Sepehri’s most acclaimed books. Sepehri combines his rich knowledge of Buddhism, Sufi mysticism, and Western traditions in this rapturous collection. Pulsing with life, Sepehri’s poetry mourns and rejoices, celebrating the complex nature of the wor…
Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers
Anzhelina Polonskaya Paul Klee’s Boat Andrew Wachtel, tr. Zephyr Press Since leaving the world of professional ice dancing, Anzhelina Polonskaya has become Russia’s rising poetic star, with several of her individual pieces appearing previously in WLT. Her latest work of haunting beauty, Paul Klee’s Boat, features her elegant, heartbreaking masterpiece “Kursk: An Oratorio Requiem,” an elegy paying tribute to those aboard the Russian submarine that…
Tiempo de ́ngeles / A Time of Angels
66 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews narrative, and therefore, it seems to us that they are taking up rather too much space here,” we can’t help but agree. The first two books in the Chonkin series managed to satirize the early 1940s and the wartime Soviet Union in a way that was relevant to the Brezhnev-era reader, but since then, Voinovich has not updated his satiric vision. Even as his characters age through perestroika and into the 1990s, thei…
Along the River That Flows Uphill
m > m ci Z m Ci D H < Ci H pj D ci O liberated fromYugoslavia and also struggling todiscover itself. The personal and political are interwoven. At independence, Slovenia suddenly changed from being "the perennially dull and diligent "A" student in a various ly backward and brilliant, barren, and abundant union" to "the poor and dangerous neighbor of a jittery European Union." On emigrating to Slovenia and marrying one of itsbest-known poets, Debe…
Incantations
imiiiiiiiimmiiiii a simple chronologyand keeping the corresponding notes to a minimum, he creates a shapely, focused assemblage whose clear, precise translations chime likeringing glass. Econ?mou's translation style is direct and concise. It is somewhat lighterand less formalin itslanguage than thestylesofprevious translators ofCavafy likeRae Dalven, Edmund Keeley, and Philip Sherrard,or, more recently, Daniel Mendelsohn. Unlike Mendelsohn, Econo…
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El fútbol a sol y sombra
Incantations
imiiiiiiiimmiiiii a simple chronologyand keeping the corresponding notes to a minimum, he creates a shapely, focused assemblage whose clear, precise translations chime likeringing glass. Econ?mou's translation style is direct and concise. It is somewhat lighterand less formalin itslanguage than thestylesofprevious translators ofCavafy likeRae Dalven, Edmund Keeley, and Philip Sherrard,or, more recently, Daniel Mendelsohn. Unlike Mendelsohn, Econo…
Along the River That Flows Uphill
m > m ci Z m Ci D H < Ci H pj D ci O liberated fromYugoslavia and also struggling todiscover itself. The personal and political are interwoven. At independence, Slovenia suddenly changed from being "the perennially dull and diligent "A" student in a various ly backward and brilliant, barren, and abundant union" to "the poor and dangerous neighbor of a jittery European Union." On emigrating to Slovenia and marrying one of itsbest-known poets, Debe…
Tiempo de ́ngeles / A Time of Angels
66 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews narrative, and therefore, it seems to us that they are taking up rather too much space here,” we can’t help but agree. The first two books in the Chonkin series managed to satirize the early 1940s and the wartime Soviet Union in a way that was relevant to the Brezhnev-era reader, but since then, Voinovich has not updated his satiric vision. Even as his characters age through perestroika and into the 1990s, thei…
Lotera Jarocha
Sohrab Sepehri The Oasis of Now Kazim Ali & Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, tr. BOA Editions The Oasis of Now, the first publication of Sohrab Sepehri’s work in the United States, gathers works from three of Sepehri’s most acclaimed books. Sepehri combines his rich knowledge of Buddhism, Sufi mysticism, and Western traditions in this rapturous collection. Pulsing with life, Sepehri’s poetry mourns and rejoices, celebrating the complex nature of the wor…
Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers
Anzhelina Polonskaya Paul Klee’s Boat Andrew Wachtel, tr. Zephyr Press Since leaving the world of professional ice dancing, Anzhelina Polonskaya has become Russia’s rising poetic star, with several of her individual pieces appearing previously in WLT. Her latest work of haunting beauty, Paul Klee’s Boat, features her elegant, heartbreaking masterpiece “Kursk: An Oratorio Requiem,” an elegy paying tribute to those aboard the Russian submarine that…
Absolute Solitude by James O'Connor
in the background. Perhaps the sound of the oud or the gentle singing of a grandmother mixing ginger and tamarind in the kitchen . One can even envision the glossy red pomegranates or taste the rice, raisins, and okra that make humble appearances. One Hundred Hungers truly inspires readers to hunger for all the things that Camp details about the cultures within the text, leaving only anticipation, now, for her next book. Sarah Warren University o…
Fracking Novels
The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisioning environmental destruction, governmental corruption, and more than one zombie apocalypse ending of the American Dream. Here, Susan Smith Nash, who is also a petroleum geologist, surveys how the unintended consequences of this controversial technology have driven the literary imagination of twenty-first-century novelists
Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guardÃ(c) by Ruth Behar
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 …
Today / Hoy by Juan Gelman
Srividya Sivakumar The Heart Is an Attic Kolkata. Hawakal. 2018. 88 pages. Blessed are the ones with attics in their homes. For an attic is a rare construct that serves as a repository of bits and pieces of memory, which in a hectic life are treated as redundant. For Srividya Sivakumar, “the heart is an attic” as the title goes, but it becomes a storehouse of not only memories but also the new and immediate. One of them is a tchotchke, a trinket,…
A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande
Books in Review Adel Esmat Tales of Yusuf Tadrus Trans. Mandy McClure. Cairo. American University in Cairo Press. 2018. 216 pages. It’s no accident that the epigraph to this novel is from Nikos Kazantzakis’s Report to Greco: “I said to the almond tree, ‘Speak to me of God.’” Kazantzakis’s book is a spiritual autobiography, which is short on facts but focuses on ideas, referring to the spiritual teachings of Christ and Buddha, Lenin and Odysseus. …
Kate ErvineCarbon
Books in Review Sinan Antoon 81 The Book of Collateral Damage Jacob M. Appel 101 Amazing Things Are Happening Here Chloe Aridjis 107 Sea Monsters Marcelo Báez Meza 98 Nunca más Amarilis: Bioficción definitiva de Márgara Sáenz Esthela Calderón 90 Los huesos de mi abuelo / The Bones of My Grandfather Chen Qiufan 95 Waste Tide Mona Dash 111 A Roll of the Dice Julie Delporte 104 This Woman’s Work Selahattin Demirtaş 89 Dawn Kate Ervine 78 Carbon Agus…
Rodrigo Márquez TizanoJakarta by Thomas Bunstead
move away, some living (they know) inauthentically, but—all the same— satisfied. Can teen infatuation lead to anything good? Will doubts erode satisfaction ? Questions that tease the mind into imagining—and reading—lives on other pages. Granted, some people are snapshots , diminished by irony. The twoyear -old who senses that he has lost control of the big people around him; the four-year-old trying to create order in the small world of his toys.…
Fernando ValverdeThe Insistence of Harm by Allen Josephs Laura Juliet Wood
inhabiting it. There are stories about love and loss endured by hashish dealers, perpetual misery in the form of endless traffic, and female oppression in the form of visa denials and cannibalism fetishes. There is a little something for everyone. The Book of Cairo is edited and introduced by Raph Cormack, a translator, editor, and author with a PhD in modern Arabic literature. Through his selected stories and their strategic positioning in the t…
Fabián SeveroNight in the North by Laura Cesarco Eglin Jesse Lee Kercheval
Lilia—wife, mother, and grandmother —lived “a good life among husbands, children, gardens.” She wants to erase these words as soon as she writes them. Luck makes a boring story. “The longer you live the more you appreciate those who bury their stories.” Her moods shift from humor to irritation as she watches her acquaintances pair up. Her late husband, Gilbert, believed in world peace and universal love. Even liking someone is hard for her. She t…
Another End of the World Is Possible
BOOKS IN REVIEW of Argentina’s larger socioeconomic landscape . Mundane cruelty and selfishness infiltrate much of Dangers, particularly among the teenagers; the apathy that runs through stories about homelessness, mental illness, and wealth disparity is reconstructed as teenage disputes in “Our Lady of the Quarry” and “Back When We Talked to the Dead.” In “The Lookout,” a ghost in the guise of a young girl lures a depressed woman toward destruct…
In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems. En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas. Ndaani' Gueela' ne xhupa diidxaguie' by Irma Pineda
Reviewed by: In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems. En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas. Ndaani' Gueela' ne xhupa diidxaguie' by Irma Pineda Susan Smith Nash Irma Pineda In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems. En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas. Ndaani' Gueela' ne xhupa diidxaguie' Trans. Wendy Call with the author. Illus. Natalia Gurovich. Mexico City. Pluralia Edicionese Impresiones. 2021. 160 pages. TO PUBLISH POETRY written …
The Invisible Borders of Time
Reviewed by: The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets ed. by Nidia Hernández Susan Smith Nash The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets Ed. Nidia Hernández Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2022. 174 pages. THE INVISIBLE BORDERS OF TIME is a bilingual compilation of poems by five highly regarded female Latin American poets: Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Piedad Bonnett (Colombia), Yolanda Panti…
Milongas by Edgardo Cozarinsky
Reviewed by: Milongas by Edgardo Cozarinsky Susan Smith Nash Edgardo Cozarinsky Milongas Trans. Valerie Miles. Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2021. 144 pages. BIRTHED IN THE brothels of Buenos Aires, and now heralded as emblematic of Argentine culture, the tango evolved from a fusion of the candomblé music from African slaves and music from European immigrants fleeing desperate conditions. The tango is part of the musical genre known as milonga. Th…
The New World Written
Reviewed by: The New World Written: Selected Poems by María Baranda Susan Smith Nash María Baranda The New World Written: Selected Poems Ed. Paul Hoover. Trans. Various. New Haven. Yale University Press. 2021. 255 pages. WHEN ASKED ABOUT her primary influences, María Baranda pointed to Lebanese poet Andrée Chedid for her “luminosity” and the textures of the work. Her reply may have surprised the interviewer, Fernando Valverde, who is the leader o…
Delicates by Wendy Guerra (review)
Reviewed by: Delicates by Wendy Guerra Susan Smith Nash WENDY GUERRA Delicates Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson & Esperanza Hope Snyder. London. Seagull Press. 2023. 72 pages. TRANSLATORS Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder struggled to find a term that would capture the complexity of Cuban-born Wendy Guerra's collection of poems in Spanish. The original title, Ropa Interior, is typically translated as "underwear" or "undergarments." However,…
I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval (review)
Reviewed by: I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval Susan Smith Nash JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL I Want to Tell You Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. 80 pages. JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL’S poems in I Want to Tell You give rise to the possibility that abjection can apply to grief, as in the impossibility of processing the loss of multiple loved ones, colleagues, family members, and acquaintances. “We are dying all dying,” she writes, and wonde…
Claus and the Scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal
Reviewed by: Claus and the Scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal Susan Smith Nash LARA DOPAZO RUIBAL Claus and the Scorpion Trans. Laura Cesarco Eglin. Normal, Illinois. Co*Im*Press. 2022. 134 pages. AS A WORK WRITTEN in a nonhegemonic language, Galician, the set of poems in Claus and the Scorpion is implicitly about constructing a separate identity that withstands the ongoing risks of absorption, invisibility, or even potential extinction. Claus and th…
The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (review)
Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda (review)
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