David Vichnar (Ed.) Thresholds

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READ AN EXCERPT To speak of an "international Prague poetry scene" is to deal with an in-between space: a space between languages, cultures, literary traditions. A space of trans-lation, of carrying-over, of meta-phor. A space of boundaries, limits, borderlines: the space of the threshold. Each of the essays & interviews collected here aims to give the proponents of Prague literary scene their due, both in terms of theorising their work in original contexts, as well as evaluating their contributions, both past & present. Together, they provide insights into the concerns of an ongoing international discussion on the locus & locality of contemporary poetry written from outside the poets' homelands, across borders -- what has come to be termed translocal poetry. The essays collected in this volume aim to explore the poetic sensibility of some of the most prominent Anglophone poets active in Prague over the past 20 years, namely, Gwendolyn Albert, Louis Armand, Laura Conway, Chris Crawford, Stephan Delbos, and Vincent Farnsworth. As a whole, the collection addresses the joint issues of transculturality, transnationalism, on the one hand, and locality and regionalism, on the other. Contributors: Gwendolyn Albert, Ali Alizadeth, Louis Armand, Laura Conway, Chris Crawford, Stephan Delbos, Vadim Erent, Jane Lewty, Jules Mann, Katerina Pinosova.