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On our radar: 'Thanksgiving' by Ted Rees

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s title on our radar: Thanksgiving: A Poem, by Ted Rees (Golias Books, 2020). If you’d like to submit a review of this title for consideration, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'un\ \martyred' by Nhã Thuyên

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s title on our radar: un\ \martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry by Nhã Thuyên (Roof Books, 2019). If you’d like to submit a review for consideration, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'Toxicon and Arachne' by Joyelle McSweeney

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: Toxicon and Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney (Nightboat Books, 2020). If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'For the Ride' by Alice Notley

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: For the Ride by Alice Notley (Penguin Poets, 2020) . If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'Little Hill' by Alli Warren

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: Little Hill by Alli Warren (City Lights, 2020). If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'Gut Botany' by Petra Kuppers

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: Gut Botany by Petra Kuppers (Wayne State University Press, 2020). If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'The Malevolent Volume' by Justin Phillip Reed

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House Press, 2020). If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

On our radar: 'Grief Sequence' by Prageeta Sharma

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During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: Grief Sequence by Prageeta Sharma (Wave Books, 2019). If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

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Publishing during the COVID-19 crisis

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Like many of you, we are adapting to increased safety measures around COVID-19 at the University of Pennsylvania and other campuses. Our work here at Jacket2 will likely be delayed and/or interrupted; our publication schedule for both commentaries and J2 content at large will be slower than usual as we adapt to the global pandemic. Many of our editors are working remotely, and we will continue to curate Jacket2 as a space to convene and sustain a life in/through poetry during times of scarcity, stress, and shifting imagined communities. We remain committed to bringing you open access content when institutional access and travel for research become compromised and complicated.

A note from the editors and publishers of Jacket2:

Recencies

Charles Bernstein

•"The Tugboat and the Quayle," Literary Activism, with video
•Enclave series Zoom reading, July 26 2020, introduction by Rae Armantrout: YouTube
•Tonya Foster, erica kaufman, and Tracie Morrie discuss "There's a Hole in My Pocket" with Al Filries (ModPo): YouTube (2020)

Clayton Eshleman & the Practice of Translation: A Tribute

Jerome Rothenberg

[The following is an essay I wrote in the course of judging the 2007 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for the Academy of American Poets. It was originally published by the Academy in American Poet, volume 35, Fall 2008, but never appeared in Jacket2. At this later stage in his life (and mine), I’m posting it here, along with a poem of Eshleman’s that shows the intensity of his relation to Cesar Vallejo in the course of his Vallejo translations as a life’s work. (j.r.)]