The Book:

The book is in Oaxaca! I’m excited about Chicatanas with its beautiful Katherine Koch cover painting. Jordan Davis at CCCP/Subpress Collective selected poems from my 6 poetry books to date to create this chapbook. If you don’t know my work, here’s a nice, quick introduction. If you do, it’s more like random snapshots of the past 4 decades. Bonus? A Spanish translation by Oaxacan poet Efraín Velasco. Chicatanas nicely foreshadows a planned New and Selected for 2028.

The Author:

Mark Statman (born 1958) is an American writer, translator, and poet. He is emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City, where he taught from 1985 to 2016.[1] He has published 11 books, 6 of poetry, 3 of translation, and 2 on pedagogy and poetry. His writing has appeared in numerous anthologies and reviews.

EFRAÍN VELASCO, (Oaxaca, 1977) Autor de los libros Juchitán tiembla (2021); Gretel regresa sola… (2018); 4’ 33” (2015); y Sostiene Gruñón (2015); así como de & mi voz tokonoma (2008), título acreedor del Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven “Elías Nandino. Parte de su trabajo multimedial se incluyó en A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing (2017) y se ha expuesto en México, España, Portugal, Chile, Estados Unidos. Recientemente, junto con el colectivo Sombras propias (Ricardo Pinto y Daniel Flores), participa en la IV Bienal del Sur “Pueblos en resistencia”, con base en Caracas, Venezuela (2021).