David Shook
Biographic Data
| ID | 965768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Shook |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Shook |
| SIGNATURE | SHOOK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0131-1834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Three Poems from Rojava, Syria
Taha Khalil is a writer, painter, and intellectual who was one of the first Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) activists in Syria. Today he hosts a regular television program on Ronahi TV in Qamishlo and is one of the Rojava Centre for Strategic Studies’ three directors. Displaced from his home by the Islamic State’s attempt to exterminate the Êzîdî, Zêdan Xelef (b. 1995, Izêr) arrived with his family to the Chamishko IDP camp in late 2014. His curre…
Poetry as Wonder, Desire, Rage, and Memory
I first collaborated with poet Natalie Diaz in 2017, when she wrote the introductory essay for a catalog I edited for Visualizing Language. This Pacific Standard Time–sponsored exhibition brought Oaxacan artist collective Tlacolulokos to the Los Angeles Central Library to install large murals featuring their contemporary portraiture of Zapotec migrants beneath—and in clear repudiation of—Dean Cornwell's 1932 murals featuring “the discovery” of Ca…
The Book of Dhaka
Subtle threads connect disparate narratives wherein perspectives shift from third to first person, time shuttles back and forth, and ostensibly unrelated characters appear, vanish, and sometimes reappear elsewhere, often tangentially. But a central plot emerges that links the politics of church and state: the life of Ife’s academic community and the election for director of its interdenominational choir. Despite small stakes, the applicants schem…
Exorcising Cuba's Future
photo : restless books W hen we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba’s Special Period, the time in the early 1990s following the fall of the Soviet Union, which had artificially propped up Cuba’s economy, I was surprised to hear that he had survived during the extreme food shortage of that time by catching and eating cats, …
Into English
all their emotional charge, when I look at these images of places I no longer recognize , images that I can no longer locate in the right place in the mental path of those days when I walked around in the old town, lost in the ever-shifting topography of my memory. Like an emigrant returning after many decades to his hometown where everything has changed and he finds himself having to come to terms with the altered landscape of his youth.” Even i…
Nine Coins/Nueve monedas by Carlos Pintado
104 WLT MAY–AUGUST 2016 Yahia Lababidi. Balancing Acts. WinstonSalem , North Carolina. Press 53. 2016. 204 pages. Mystical and modern, Yahia Lababidi’s Balancing Acts, a collection of poems spanning across a career of decades, tethers together a spectrum of concepts seemingly distant yet connected in a fashion nothing short of revelatory. For Lababidi, a notebook is as adequate an allegory for a Platonic parable as litter is to the overwhelming a…
Twelve Thoughts for Aspiring Do-It-Yourself Publishers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 33 Chapbook: A handmade book of up to about forty pages, typically saddle-stitched (stapled at its spine). Chapbooks date back to the sixteenth century, as printed books first became affordable in Europe. 1 – All publishing is do-it-yourself publishing . Some publishers just do it better than others. 2 – Instructions for making a simple chapbook : print content on paper, fold paper in half, bind papers together. Adjust va…
Twelve Thoughts for Aspiring Do-It-Yourself Publishers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 33 Chapbook: A handmade book of up to about forty pages, typically saddle-stitched (stapled at its spine). Chapbooks date back to the sixteenth century, as printed books first became affordable in Europe. 1 – All publishing is do-it-yourself publishing . Some publishers just do it better than others. 2 – Instructions for making a simple chapbook : print content on paper, fold paper in half, bind papers together. Adjust va…
Ukp'éel wayak' / Seven Dreams
reviews is composed of history, science, personal narrative, and song. The collection could be seen as a compilation of songs that serve as a greatest hits album. Many of the poems in the volume appear in earlier collections of Revard’s work. More compellingly, however, this volume of poetry represents a lyrical echo. The strongest moments in the collection are those of borrowing and repetition wherein Revard uses words and rhythms from the past …
The Past Prepares the Future
12 worldliteraturetoday.org WLT interview A Conversation with Burundian Novelist Roland Rugero Emily Hunt & David Shook R oland Rugero (b. 1986) grew up in exile from his native Burundi but returned as soon as he could to pursue his education and eventually work as a professional journalist and writer. His second novel, Baho!, was published in France in 2012 and is forthcoming in English in 2015 (Phoneme Media), in a translation from the French b…
Goma
September–October 2014 • 5 photo : un photo / sylvain liechti notebook Goma City Profile This is not the first time I’ve tried to enter Goma, but it’s the first time I’ve been allowed to cross the land border from Gisenyi, Rwanda, since the back-and-forth shelling between rebel group M23 and the Rwandan army during the late summer of 2013 impeded my last attempt at entering the country. The border crossing is slow, and the Congolese officials are…
Bangladesh on the World Stage
may–june 2013 • 43 cover feature Bangladesh on the World Stage Featuring K. Anis Ahmed, Tahmima Anam, Maria Chaudhuri, Farah Ghuznavi, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, and Mahmud Rahman Guest-edited by David Shook photo : getty images / channdan mitra cover feature 44 World Literature Today B eneath the twin pillars of Bangla-language poets Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam—icons so revered that enormous statues of twin doves, in their honor, adorn…
Opening Bangladesh to the World
Following the 2012 Dhaka Hay Festival, I had the opportunity to sit down with five prominent English-language Bangladeshi writers, editors, and boosters: Tahmima Anam, Farah Ghuznavi, Mahmud Rahman, and K. Anis Ahmed. Our conversation took place at Red Shift, a coffee shop and cultural center that has done much to support contemporary Bangladeshi art and literature. We planned to talk for just under an hour, but our excitement extended our conver…
A Conversation with
In February 2011 Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (b. 1966) declared a hunger strike in order to bring attention to the political situation in Equatorial Guinea, where the longstanding authoritarian regime works in tandem with the compliance of foreign powers. Concerned for the security of the author, national and international observers recommended that he leave the country. Today, Ávila Laurel lives in Spain, where he has become, in his own words, a “mi…
A Conversation with
In February 2011 Juan Tom ́s ́vila Laurel (b. 1966) declared a hunger strike in order to bring attention to the political situation in Equatorial Guinea, where the longstanding authoritarian regime works in tandem with the compliance of foreign powers. Concerned for the security of the author, national and international observers recommended that he leave the country. Today, ́vila Laurel lives in Spain, where he has become, in his own words, a “m…
Collage Culture
literary criticism. Adamantly transnational in his approach, Nixon is able to pay due respect to the local in terms of individual social structures and geographical particularities while also crossing geopolitical boundaries . In its attention to “unforeseeable imaginative connection,” Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor challenges readers to new modes of thinking through grave realities. In so doing, it makes a fundamental contrib…
Poetryâs Afterlife
reviews a longer, more comprehensive story than the thousand-word dispatches to which Shadid is accustomed. Sympathetic Lebanese and American characters emerge, their hope or lack of hope for a peaceful existence spelled out across a setting evoked in the small details noticeable only to a world-class reporter’s eye. While similar-sounding to a Tom Wolfe–style sample of immersion journalism, House of Stone falls squarely in the realm of the memoi…
Shiki Nagaoka
There are those who affirm that the birth of Shiki Nagaoka presented problems because of the abnormality of his nose, and even that the child's life was endangered by his extraordinarily prolonged birth. The mother was assisted by two midwives, as Shiki Nagaoka belonged to an aristocratic family. When they saw the child, the women discussed whether the nose was a punishment for having participated the mother as much as a good part of society in t…
Southern Barbarians by John MateerThe West
hUHIH JohnMateer. SouthernBarbarians. Sydney, Australia. Giramondo. 2011.95 pages. Aus$24. isbn 978-1-920882-58-7 . TheWest: Australian Poems 1989-2009.Fremantle, Australia. Fremantle Press(IPG,distr.). 2010.152 pages.$24.95. isbn 978-1-921361-86-9 JohnMateerrepresents the most recentreincarnation of the international poet,a post-expat literary explorer,perpetualstudent,and cultural chameleon (see WLT,Sept. 2011, 24). Born in South Africa, raised…
Usher by B. H. Fairchild
metaphor for the "stray" poets who make a virtue of transgression. In "The Outsider Ape," he voices his fear of dying in a foreign land and identifieswith thousands of Latin American youths like himself, "brushing cheekswith death." During this experimental period with poetry, Bolano evokes failed revolutionaries who appear tohim as ghosts of thepast, like the poet Mario Santiago, with whom he founded the infra-realist movement (1975-77). m "The …
The Dylan Dog Case Files by Tiziano Sclavi, Bojana Dozic
I, "whodunnit" in a village of twelve 1 families somewhere in the Ghanaian , jungle. The investigation, however, 1 becomes increasingly complex, and i Kayo's discussions with Opanyin 1 Poku and Oduro, residents of the i village, are told through a web of [ storyand palm wine, i The story within the story , explores themysterious, employing 1 Ghanaian proverbs and ancestral i wisdom. In the narrative of Opanyin 1 Poku, we read: "Ei, wonders will i…
Death in Augusta Street
Death inAugusta Street TediLopez Mills Translator's note: Tedi Lopez Mills's latest book, Muerte en la r?a Augusta, was published in 2009 by theyoung Oaxaca-based press AImadia and later thatyear won Mexico's prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. The collection isa narrative sequence of lyricsabout Gordon, a neurotic businessman inFullerton, California, who suffers from a mental breakdown, its resulting incapacitation, and, eventually, self-cann…
Outposts
outposts LiteraryLandmarks& Events Bubanza, Burundi Withgratitudeto the Honorable Etienne Ndayishimiye, Evariste Ndikumana, and Claude Nikondeha. Editorial note:Towatch a video demonstration of the grass-oven firingof pots, and toviewadditional photos of traditional Batwa dances, visit theonlineversion of this Outpost on our website (www. worldliteraturetoday.com). To read moreof the/Xam poetry byDi?lkwain,see TheStarsSay "Tsau" (2004), ed. Antji…
Six Variations on Love
Fromthe PalmofMy Hand From thepalm ofmy hand the afternoon eats itsmeal: lean horse abandoned forbeing old, nagging horse, dirtyhorse. There is a trail behind thehill you see there. In theopen sky three white tissues distance themselves, saying goodbye. Nostalgia has hung itshammock in my heart and my grudges hastily sharpen their weapons. Here theearth isbroken, land of acacias and stones. In the sky smoke and clouds are visible, clouds, smoke, …
From the Palm of My Hand
Fromthe PalmofMy Hand From thepalm ofmy hand the afternoon eats itsmeal: lean horse abandoned forbeing old, nagging horse, dirtyhorse. There is a trail behind thehill you see there. In theopen sky three white tissues distance themselves, saying goodbye. Nostalgia has hung itshammock in my heart and my grudges hastily sharpen their weapons. Here theearth isbroken, land of acacias and stones. In the sky smoke and clouds are visible, clouds, smoke, …
Foreign Language Literature and The Beginning Learner‐Reader
Given the traditional “skills” focus of beginning and intermediate foreign language classes, college FL students typically receive little exposure to literary works until their “advanced” levels of language study. This article, by examining the nature of literature and by surveying how current textbooks guide beginning learners to access literary works, explores the potential learner benefits of early exposure to literature and suggests instructi…
Opening Bangladesh to the World
Following the 2012 Dhaka Hay Festival, I had the opportunity to sit down with five prominent English-language Bangladeshi writers, editors, and boosters: Tahmima Anam, Farah Ghuznavi, Mahmud Rahman, and K. Anis Ahmed. Our conversation took place at Red Shift, a coffee shop and cultural center that has done much to support contemporary Bangladeshi art and literature. We planned to talk for just under an hour, but our excitement extended our conver…
Identifying and Overcoming Possible Mismatches in the Beginning Reader-Literary Text Interaction
By definition, beginning foreign language learner-readers lack linguistic knowledge and/or cul- tural knowledge inherently assumed in foreign language literary texts. Such gaps in information may result in possible mismatches between the interaction between beginning learner-readers' linguistic knowledge of Spanish, their Hispanic cultural knowledge, and the linguistic and cultural knowledge assumed in a Spanish- language literary text. To preclu…
Foreign Language Literature and The Beginning Learner‐Reader
Given the traditional “skills” focus of beginning and intermediate foreign language classes, college FL students typically receive little exposure to literary works until their “advanced” levels of language study. This article, by examining the nature of literature and by surveying how current textbooks guide beginning learners to access literary works, explores the potential learner benefits of early exposure to literature and suggests instructi…
Identifying and Overcoming Possible Mismatches in the Beginning Reader-Literary Text Interaction
By definition, beginning foreign language learner-readers lack linguistic knowledge and/or cul- tural knowledge inherently assumed in foreign language literary texts. Such gaps in information may result in possible mismatches between the interaction between beginning learner-readers' linguistic knowledge of Spanish, their Hispanic cultural knowledge, and the linguistic and cultural knowledge assumed in a Spanish- language literary text. To preclu…
Outposts
outposts LiteraryLandmarks& Events Bubanza, Burundi Withgratitudeto the Honorable Etienne Ndayishimiye, Evariste Ndikumana, and Claude Nikondeha. Editorial note:Towatch a video demonstration of the grass-oven firingof pots, and toviewadditional photos of traditional Batwa dances, visit theonlineversion of this Outpost on our website (www. worldliteraturetoday.com). To read moreof the/Xam poetry byDi?lkwain,see TheStarsSay "Tsau" (2004), ed. Antji…
Six Variations on Love
Fromthe PalmofMy Hand From thepalm ofmy hand the afternoon eats itsmeal: lean horse abandoned forbeing old, nagging horse, dirtyhorse. There is a trail behind thehill you see there. In theopen sky three white tissues distance themselves, saying goodbye. Nostalgia has hung itshammock in my heart and my grudges hastily sharpen their weapons. Here theearth isbroken, land of acacias and stones. In the sky smoke and clouds are visible, clouds, smoke, …
From the Palm of My Hand
Fromthe PalmofMy Hand From thepalm ofmy hand the afternoon eats itsmeal: lean horse abandoned forbeing old, nagging horse, dirtyhorse. There is a trail behind thehill you see there. In theopen sky three white tissues distance themselves, saying goodbye. Nostalgia has hung itshammock in my heart and my grudges hastily sharpen their weapons. Here theearth isbroken, land of acacias and stones. In the sky smoke and clouds are visible, clouds, smoke, …
One Thousand Languages
is evoked in tiers of giddy sensory images: "a leaf, a sheaf / of paper, pillow- / case, or heart- / shaped face, / a shriekinghiss, / like winds, like / death, all tangled / there in branches." The short, rapid-fire lines expand in lengthas thespeaker surprises us with her presence, iden tifyingherself as thepoem's maker: 'T called thispoem 'the owl,' / the name that, like a key, locked out thedark / and later let me closemy book and sleep / a w…
Wounding the Dark
Wounding the Dark AmerHanna Fatuhi Like a creeping slug came thepitch-black and like fingersskilled in theartofpickpocketing All the lightsof our soulswere extracted tobe leftcirclinga space of darkness and emptiness A man ofblood A man of flesh And a woman a dream a home Or a home a dream a woman Of glowing coal Of charcoal My home refreshes me like theEuphrates Or theTigris A hyena enjoying pulling outmy rightfoot's toenails Putting out his cig…
Lalu' / Your Name
Three Poems Victor Texan VictorTerdn is the most personalpoet of the Zapotec IsthmusofOaxaca, Mexico. He was horn inJuchitdn de Zaragoza in 1958.His work has beenpublishedextensivelyinmagazines and anthologiesthroughout Mexico. Since 2000, he has also appeared inanthologiesinItalyand the United States (ReversibleMonuments and Words of theTrue Peoples), and poemsareforthcominginPoetry,Oxford Magazine, and on the PoetryTranslationCentre website in2…
Verses and Versions
I ^ I > I I ^ I I z I ^ I I < I I ^ I I H I I o I I I ? I 1^1 as one inwhich thepoet defines the act ofwriting as not "work / but workmanship" and seals the defini tion by stressing the avidity with which writers must systematically invade and lacerate the self in order to practice their craft: "To evoke thought's form, / measure and trim it. / I thinkof a tailor /who ishis own fabric." Rita Signorelli-Pappas Princeton, New Jersey Gibbons Ruark.S…
Usher by B. H. Fairchild
metaphor for the "stray" poets who make a virtue of transgression. In "The Outsider Ape," he voices his fear of dying in a foreign land and identifieswith thousands of Latin American youths like himself, "brushing cheekswith death." During this experimental period with poetry, Bolano evokes failed revolutionaries who appear tohim as ghosts of thepast, like the poet Mario Santiago, with whom he founded the infra-realist movement (1975-77). m "The …
The Dylan Dog Case Files by Tiziano Sclavi, Bojana Dozic
I, "whodunnit" in a village of twelve 1 families somewhere in the Ghanaian , jungle. The investigation, however, 1 becomes increasingly complex, and i Kayo's discussions with Opanyin 1 Poku and Oduro, residents of the i village, are told through a web of [ storyand palm wine, i The story within the story , explores themysterious, employing 1 Ghanaian proverbs and ancestral i wisdom. In the narrative of Opanyin 1 Poku, we read: "Ei, wonders will i…
Death in Augusta Street
Death inAugusta Street TediLopez Mills Translator's note: Tedi Lopez Mills's latest book, Muerte en la r?a Augusta, was published in 2009 by theyoung Oaxaca-based press AImadia and later thatyear won Mexico's prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. The collection isa narrative sequence of lyricsabout Gordon, a neurotic businessman inFullerton, California, who suffers from a mental breakdown, its resulting incapacitation, and, eventually, self-cann…
Shiki Nagaoka
There are those who affirm that the birth of Shiki Nagaoka presented problems because of the abnormality of his nose, and even that the child's life was endangered by his extraordinarily prolonged birth. The mother was assisted by two midwives, as Shiki Nagaoka belonged to an aristocratic family. When they saw the child, the women discussed whether the nose was a punishment for having participated the mother as much as a good part of society in t…
Southern Barbarians by John MateerThe West
hUHIH JohnMateer. SouthernBarbarians. Sydney, Australia. Giramondo. 2011.95 pages. Aus$24. isbn 978-1-920882-58-7 . TheWest: Australian Poems 1989-2009.Fremantle, Australia. Fremantle Press(IPG,distr.). 2010.152 pages.$24.95. isbn 978-1-921361-86-9 JohnMateerrepresents the most recentreincarnation of the international poet,a post-expat literary explorer,perpetualstudent,and cultural chameleon (see WLT,Sept. 2011, 24). Born in South Africa, raised…
A Conversation with
In February 2011 Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (b. 1966) declared a hunger strike in order to bring attention to the political situation in Equatorial Guinea, where the longstanding authoritarian regime works in tandem with the compliance of foreign powers. Concerned for the security of the author, national and international observers recommended that he leave the country. Today, Ávila Laurel lives in Spain, where he has become, in his own words, a “mi…
A Conversation with
In February 2011 Juan Tom ́s ́vila Laurel (b. 1966) declared a hunger strike in order to bring attention to the political situation in Equatorial Guinea, where the longstanding authoritarian regime works in tandem with the compliance of foreign powers. Concerned for the security of the author, national and international observers recommended that he leave the country. Today, ́vila Laurel lives in Spain, where he has become, in his own words, a “m…
Collage Culture
literary criticism. Adamantly transnational in his approach, Nixon is able to pay due respect to the local in terms of individual social structures and geographical particularities while also crossing geopolitical boundaries . In its attention to “unforeseeable imaginative connection,” Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor challenges readers to new modes of thinking through grave realities. In so doing, it makes a fundamental contrib…
Poetryâs Afterlife
reviews a longer, more comprehensive story than the thousand-word dispatches to which Shadid is accustomed. Sympathetic Lebanese and American characters emerge, their hope or lack of hope for a peaceful existence spelled out across a setting evoked in the small details noticeable only to a world-class reporter’s eye. While similar-sounding to a Tom Wolfe–style sample of immersion journalism, House of Stone falls squarely in the realm of the memoi…
Bangladesh on the World Stage
may–june 2013 • 43 cover feature Bangladesh on the World Stage Featuring K. Anis Ahmed, Tahmima Anam, Maria Chaudhuri, Farah Ghuznavi, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, and Mahmud Rahman Guest-edited by David Shook photo : getty images / channdan mitra cover feature 44 World Literature Today B eneath the twin pillars of Bangla-language poets Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam—icons so revered that enormous statues of twin doves, in their honor, adorn…
Opening Bangladesh to the World
Following the 2012 Dhaka Hay Festival, I had the opportunity to sit down with five prominent English-language Bangladeshi writers, editors, and boosters: Tahmima Anam, Farah Ghuznavi, Mahmud Rahman, and K. Anis Ahmed. Our conversation took place at Red Shift, a coffee shop and cultural center that has done much to support contemporary Bangladeshi art and literature. We planned to talk for just under an hour, but our excitement extended our conver…
Ukp'éel wayak' / Seven Dreams
reviews is composed of history, science, personal narrative, and song. The collection could be seen as a compilation of songs that serve as a greatest hits album. Many of the poems in the volume appear in earlier collections of Revard’s work. More compellingly, however, this volume of poetry represents a lyrical echo. The strongest moments in the collection are those of borrowing and repetition wherein Revard uses words and rhythms from the past …
The Past Prepares the Future
12 worldliteraturetoday.org WLT interview A Conversation with Burundian Novelist Roland Rugero Emily Hunt & David Shook R oland Rugero (b. 1986) grew up in exile from his native Burundi but returned as soon as he could to pursue his education and eventually work as a professional journalist and writer. His second novel, Baho!, was published in France in 2012 and is forthcoming in English in 2015 (Phoneme Media), in a translation from the French b…
Goma
September–October 2014 • 5 photo : un photo / sylvain liechti notebook Goma City Profile This is not the first time I’ve tried to enter Goma, but it’s the first time I’ve been allowed to cross the land border from Gisenyi, Rwanda, since the back-and-forth shelling between rebel group M23 and the Rwandan army during the late summer of 2013 impeded my last attempt at entering the country. The border crossing is slow, and the Congolese officials are…
Twelve Thoughts for Aspiring Do-It-Yourself Publishers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 33 Chapbook: A handmade book of up to about forty pages, typically saddle-stitched (stapled at its spine). Chapbooks date back to the sixteenth century, as printed books first became affordable in Europe. 1 – All publishing is do-it-yourself publishing . Some publishers just do it better than others. 2 – Instructions for making a simple chapbook : print content on paper, fold paper in half, bind papers together. Adjust va…
Twelve Thoughts for Aspiring Do-It-Yourself Publishers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 33 Chapbook: A handmade book of up to about forty pages, typically saddle-stitched (stapled at its spine). Chapbooks date back to the sixteenth century, as printed books first became affordable in Europe. 1 – All publishing is do-it-yourself publishing . Some publishers just do it better than others. 2 – Instructions for making a simple chapbook : print content on paper, fold paper in half, bind papers together. Adjust va…
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