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katherine m. hedeen
@hedeenk.bsky.social
poetry | translator | prof. spanish kenyon College | managing editor action books | mt. vernon, colton havana

www.katherinemhedeen.com
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Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses

(trans. @hedeenk.bsky.social and Victor R Nunez)



“The greatest living poet in the Spanish language.”
– Raúl Zurita

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Antonio Gamoneda, Burn the Losses • Action Books
Burn the Losses By Antonio Gamoneda Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Victor Rodríguez Núñez ISBN: 978-0-900575-24-2 | 88 pages | Price: $18 | Release Date: 4/15/2025 “The light boils beneath my e...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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New Action Books titles - Antonio Gamoneda, ML Martin, Ghayath Almadhoun - now on sales on our website: All three books for 40 bucks.

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2025 Subscription: 3 Books for $40! • Action Books
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April 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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@hedeenk.bsky.social : “Consistency is important, particularly if your poet works in categories.”
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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@hedeenk.bsky.social : “There’s a real trend (in Latin America) toward commodifying poems to compete with prose, so I seek out poets who write against that trend—not just writing poems but writing poetry.”
March 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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@hedeenk.bsky.social “American readers want a special kind of poet—someone who is ‘Rah-Rah revolution’ or ‘down with the revolution.’”
March 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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And we’re back from #AWP25, live-blogging “Poetry at Large: the Joys and Perils of Translating Long Poems from @littranslate.bsky.social , ft. WWB-er Edith Adams, Conor Bracken, @hedeenk.bsky.social , Derick Matern, and WWB-er Mira Rosenthal!
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"The Art Life": Joyelle has an article up at Poetry Foundation about Tove Ditlevsen (and David Lynch).

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/166...
The Art Life
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Notre Dame invites applications for a full-time one-year visiting assistant professorship in #CreativeWriting - #Poetry to begin August 25, 2025. Secondary expertise in translation; multilingual or international writing; and/or hybrid forms is optimal.

Learn more:
apply.interfolio.com/165208
March 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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"In the month of October I witnessed
the inimitable vibration of the wings of a hummingbird."
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“the night opens and falls
a womb
in the deserts”

3 poems from Chus Pato’s award-winning Sonora,
tr. Erín Moure
check them out here:

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poetry in action #43 | From SONORA by Chus Pato, Translated by Erín Moure • Action Books
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. NOW MORE THAN EVER: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publisha...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The poet I've spent the most time with over the past couple of years has been Antonio Gamoneda. His book Burn the Losses is incredible. Out from Action Books in April. Let me know if you want an arc.
March 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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action will be at AWP!
booth 549
come check out new titles!
offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.
March 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
thanks to Cody for spending some time w/ midnight minutes! @actionbooks.bsky.social
@carrionbloombooks.bsky.social
I loved diving into the catalogues and works of Donald Nicholson-Smith, Brother Anthony of Taizé, Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky, @s-lavochkina.bsky.social, and @hedeenk.bsky.social.

Read about the works here: riantly.substack.com/p/four-books...
Four Books, Four Presses, Four Countries, Six Translators
A survey, uniting threads, and notes on reading
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March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"she's so beautiful i'm crying
into my echo mic under a lilac bush
in some reese's pieces backyard
in some forgotten 90s"

SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 is now available from @eldiagram.bsky.social! $15 shipping + digital copy

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#pop #poetry #beyonce #kanye #taylorswift #adele
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Thanks to everyone who responded. Reviewing new writing is crucial in building a literary ecology. This is especially true of works in translation - it's essential to bring the translated works into contact with US literature through reviews and other responses. Message me if you want an arc.
check out this list! let me know if you’re interested in reviewing! @actionbooks.bsky.social
New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:

• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer

Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
March 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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minor lits is always open to review submissions -- no pitches, just send your texts here:

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March 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
check out this list! let me know if you’re interested in reviewing! @actionbooks.bsky.social
New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:

• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer

Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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My "Sociocide" book tour begins later this month! My friend Nathan Dixon and I found ourselves a lovely little roach motel just a hop, skip, and a jump from the LA Convention Center. Invite us to all of your parties. xo

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March 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
there’s more Gamoneda coming very soon from @actionbooks.bsky.social!
burn the losses is out 4/15.
available for pre-order on action website or @asterismbooks.bsky.social
Favorite book of poems so far this year
March 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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So grateful to everyone who came out to my launch for SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 this past Wednesday! Esp Johannes and Joyelle, two very dear friends and mentors. I owe them both so much. Words can't express the profound respect I have for them 🖤🖤 @eldiagram.bsky.social

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February 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
poetry in action is back!
check it out.
Karen Villeda tr. NAFTA
String Theory out soon w/ cardboard house press!
Poets of the World Unite!

poetry in action is back.

“I am the moan, the boiling, the sneeze, I am the over-there. I am the artesian well, the kestrel’s pertinence, I am tongue. I am the intestines and the foot inside, inside of someone.”

Karen Villeda, tr. NAFTA

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poetry in action #42 | From STRING THEORY by Karen Villeda, Translated by NAFTA • Action Books
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. NOW MORE THAN EVER: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publisha...
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February 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"The poems in this book are untitled and incredibly brief, and it is easy to read them as short-yet-elusive letters and, at the same time, as part of one long epic."

Wonderful review of Jäderlund's Lonespeech on Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social :

heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/12/l...
Poetry Review: Matt Martinson Reads Ann Jäderlund’s Collection Lonespeech
Have you heard that a fallout between two philosophers can make national, frontpage news in France? That writing quality poetry could earn you a place of political power in Ancient China? That Vacl…
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February 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Make sure you follow the Action Books account for the latest news from this publisher of international and US poetry: bsky.app/profile/acti...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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@actionbooks.bsky.social has joined Bluesky!
February 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This will be a very special event. I will be reading with Ann Jäderlund for the first time, and also with Katarina Frostenson and her translator, Brad Harmon. These are possibly the two most influential Swedish poets of the past 3-4 decades. I hope you will all join us!
Join @johannesg.bsky.social and I for a virtual reading from our recent translations of Ann Jäderlund's LONESPEECH and Katarina Frostenson's THE SPACE OF TIME. Moderated by the incomparable Robin Myers. Hosted by Scandinavia House.

Tues, Jan 14, 2:00pm EST

www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/new-sw...
NEW SWEDISH POETRY
Join us on January 14 for a book talk with Katarina Frostenson and Bradley Harmon on "The Space of Time," a lyrical, philosophical and imagistic poetry collection and the winner of the 2016 Nordic Cou...
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January 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM