Alice-Catherine Carls

Biographic Data

ID972537
NAMEAlice-Catherine Carls
GIVEN NAMESAlice-Catherine
FAMILY NAMECarls
SIGNATURECARLS A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tennessee at Martin
ORCID0000-0003-3481-6828
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR53
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies (review)

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2025

  • Les tigres ne mangent pas les étoiles by Cécile Oumhani (review)

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2025

  • Wisława Szymborska, poeta poetów [Wisława Szymborska, a poets’ poet]

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEThe Polish Review2025

    Anna Frajlich, one of Poland's outstanding émigré poets, has been translated into several languages and is the subject of numerous scholarly articles and PhD dissertations.1 From her first book publication in 1976,2 she pursued multiple creative levels, tirelessly writing scholarly articles, essays, letters, autobiographical memoirs, journalistic pieces, and poetry, and cultivating contacts with fellow émigré poets worldwide. To gather her collec…

  • Finding Affinities

    Michelle Johnson, Michelle J Johnson et al.ARTICLEWorld Literature Today2025

  • Best Literary Translations 2024 by Jane Hirshfield (review)

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2024

  • Solio by Samira Negrouche (review)

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2024

  • Frontières ad libitum

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2024

    Reviewed by: Frontières ad libitum: Anthologie de poèmes inédits dirigée par Suzanne Dracius ed. by Suzanne Dracius Alice-Catherine Carls Frontières ad libitum: Anthologie de poèmes inédits dirigée par Suzanne Dracius Ed. Suzanne Dracius Paris. Éditions Idem. 2023. 200 pages. FRONTIÈRES AD LIBITUM is a poetic echo chamber to a program called "Le Printemps des poètes," an annual event sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre nationa…

  • Waiting for Wovoka

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Reviewed by: Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty by Gerald Vizenor Alice-Catherine Carls GERALD VIZENOR Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2023. 109 pages. THE PROLIFIC AUTHOR of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry since 1961, recipient of the 2022 Mark Twain Award, and honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives since 2021, Gerald Vize…

  • Reading Sculpture as Enchantment and Prayer

    Italo Lanfredini, Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Reading Sculpture as Enchantment and Prayer Editorial note: Visit www.italolanfredini.it to see more of Lanfredini's work and www.worldlit.org to read the Italian version of this text. For more about Lanfredini, see also Alice-Catherine Carls's "Between Poetry and Enchantment" essay on the WLT blog. Translated by Alice-Catherine Carls (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution If I Pause If I pause for a momentand observe everythingthat sur…

  • Books in Perpetual Becoming

    Alice-Catherine Carls, Serge ChamchinovARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Books in Perpetual BecomingA Conversation with Serge Chamchinov Alice-Catherine Carls (bio) and Serge Chamchinov (bio) Serge Chamchinov is a man of many languages and a scientist, visual artist, writer, and book binder. He creates first, then self-promotes his books through book reviews, exhibitions, and poetry festivals. Through graphic reading and analytical typography, he develops recurring themes in a palimpsest of books, notebook series, or …

  • The Keepers of the Books

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    The Keepers of the Books Alice-Catherine Carls (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution I GENERALLY DISTRUST social media, but scrolling through the pages of Instagram offers unexpected musings. Between royalty displays, daredevil feats, and wildlife postings, opulent and dilapidated interiors of castles and villas remind us of the vanity of all things. The photographs of French designer-turned-advertiser Francis Meslet show abandoned lib…

  • After the Transitions

    Krzysztof Siwczyk, Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    After the Transitions Krzysztof Siwczyk (bio) and Alice-Catherine Carls (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution FRANCIS MESLET, FORGOTTEN LIBRARIES SERIES (2023) / FRANCISMESLET.COM Translator's note: Almost thirty-five years have passed since the democratic awakening of central Europe, yet despite being praised today for its originality, eastern and central European literature is still not fully understood by Western readers. Krzysztof …

  • Krematoria III by Krzysztof Siwczyk

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Reviewed by: Krematoria III by Krzysztof Siwczyk Alice-Catherine Carls KRZYSZTOF SIWCZYK Krematoria III Kraków. Editions Austeria. 2022. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SIWCZYK IS known for his philosophical poetry that yields long lines reasoning out the malaise of adulting, the problematics of identity in a world of gray indifference. Debuting at age eighteen with Dzikie dzieci (Wild children), which received the 1995 "Czas Kultury" Prize, Siwczyk wrote ei…

  • Born in Winter

    Alice-Catherine Carls, Shizue OgawaARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Born in WinterA Conversation with Shizue Ogawa Alice-Catherine Carls (bio) and Shizue Ogawa (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution For Shizue Ogawa, creating is more important than publishing and selling, and yet her readership has been steadily growing in Japan and internationally. Her poetry paints the world with serenity and wonderment without hiding its underground turmoil. Born on the plains of Hokkaido's eastern Kasai District, sh…

  • Anna Frajlich

    Alice-Catherine Carls, Grażyna J KozaczkaARTICLEThe Polish Review2022

    Shakespeare's plays dominated the sixteenth century, with martyrs clamoring for justice and rehabilitation, and villains longing for cleansing; life's great circus exposed the powerlessness of innocence. In The Ghost of Shakespeare, Anna Frajlich reminds us that the English writer's ghost hovers today still. Her essays about Polish and continental European literature and poetry look at the impact of the human tragedies wrought by wars, revolution…

  • A Life in Letters

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEThe Polish Review2022

    Anna Frajlich's poetry was shaped by the shock of her forced emigration from Poland in 1969. This wound, which in time would become a creative nucleus, is amply documented in her correspondence to various recipients over the entire span of her life. Exile made Frajlich into a lifelong epistolarian, thus allowing the reader a rare glimpse into her everyday life, her professional relationships, her friendships, and the parallel progress of her scho…

  • Lost Time

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEThe Polish Review2022

    Józef Czapski was a formidable witness of the twentieth century, from his debut in 1923 as the founder of the Kapist (Paris Committee) post-Impressionist movement, to his experiences as a Soviet prisoner of war during World War II and his Cold War exile of almost fifty years. The steady international exhibits of his paintings ensured that he never faded from the cultural scene. A film about his life, Józef Czapski—świadek wieku (1896–1993) [Józef…

  • A Country of Strangers

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2022

    Reviewed by: A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems by D. Nurkse Alice-Catherine Carls D. Nurkse A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems New York. Knopf. 2022. 286 pages. AT THE CORE of A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems, is a double (external/internal) exile that causes the poet to periodically absent himself from himself, others, and the world. The poet suffers from a "pain of nothing" and is unsure of its own existen…

  • Tideline by Krystyna Dąbrowska

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2022

    Reviewed by: Tideline by Krystyna Dąbrowska Alice-Catherine Carls Krystyna Dąbrowska Tideline Trans. Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones & Mira Rosenthal. Brookline, Massachusetts, Zephyr Press. 2022. 162 pages. KRYSTYNA DĄBROWSKA (b. 1979) has published five volumes of poetry and won prestigious prizes, including the Kościelski Prize, the first Szymborska Award in 2013, and the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw in 2019. A photographer …

  • Defense Mechanism by Krzysztof Siwczyk

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2021

    Krzysztof Siwczyk Defense Mechanism Trans. Piotr Florczyk. Clinton, Massachusetts. Textshop Editions. 2021. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SIWCZYK (b. 1977), known for his love of performance arts and multiple media, reflects on the inadequacy of language in his prose-poem-play Defense Mechanism. Carefully constructed to alternate light, space, and sound, his text is a miniversion of Plato’s myth of the cave, Sartre’s No Exit, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a…

  • Satie on the Seine

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2021

    0 The attempt to recover immediacy continues in Missionaries, set as it is in Afghanistan, then extensively in Colombia . A journalist is drawn to stay in Colombia after she is kidnapped, precisely because she can’t understand what she went through. This novel enlarges the picture by including both frontline participants and the removed officials who order them into action. One is led to consider how engagement decisions are made. The hanging que…

  • Anna FrajlichW poÅpiechu rzeka pÅynie

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2021

    genesis was in a StoryCorps piece that Cao and Van Cao wrote on the fiftieth anniversary of the Tet Offensive. The different yet intertwined perspectives of mother and daughter led to a proposal for a joint writing project. Under somewhat gentle editorial supervision, the two wrote separate chapters without consulting each other, a process that not surprisingly often amplified the usual tumult of mothers and teenage daughters. Add to this process…

  • Confessions of an Unrepentant Translator

    Open AccessAlice-Catherine CarlsARTICLETematy i Konteksty2020

    Alice-Catherine Carls, tłumaczka między innymi utworów Stuarta Dybka, Charlesa Wrighta, Anny Frajlich, Marilou Awiakty, Zofii Romanowicz, Józefa Wittlina, Wisławy Szymborskiej, Joanny Pollakówny i Jeana Metellusa, omawia zarówno osobiste doświadczenia i poglądy na praktykę przekładu literackiego, jak również komentuje aktualną sytuację literatury polskiej w Ameryce. Carls poddaje refleksji nie tylko metody i tryby pracy przekładowej dotyczące bez…

  • Hélène DorionPas mÃame le bruit d'un fleuve

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2020

    instinctual. The seemingly casual interaction between the characters, and the insatiable desire of some of these characters to rise above their circumstances, is what encompasses the spirit of the book. One human action follows and exacerbates another in an endless progression of base self-interest. Yet there is a moral to this progression, one that cannot be ignored as the hero/antihero slides into an inevitable sky-fall toward his destiny. Grin…

  • Kébir AmmiBen AÃ ̄cha

    Alice-Catherine CarlsARTICLEWorld Literature Today2020

    necting the discussions to existential issues of mortality, the sacramental, and the metaphysical . Finally, in part 3, we encounter five more essays, two in which Gioia considers the earliest of Christian writers (St. Paul) and the true business of martyrs as witnesses of “uncompromised truth,” and three in which Gioia explores Catholic artists in three other media—painting, sculpture, and music. It’s difficult to convey the rewarding nature of …