Places You Leave - Byrne, James
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¿Places you Leave is relentlessly energetic and politically insistent without ever being pedantic, these are knife-sharp glimpses of the world. The specificity of the details ¿ spindling out over and again ¿ never releases us. We¿re yanked along image by image, observation by observation. And, suddenly, it occurs that we¿re the angel going backwards with the world collapsing in our wake.¿ Forrest Gander Beginning inside the largest refugee camp in the world (Cox¿s Bazar) and ending up with Lorca in Granada, Places You Leave explores questions of travel, place / displacement, self / otherness,…mehr

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¿Places you Leave is relentlessly energetic and politically insistent without ever being pedantic, these are knife-sharp glimpses of the world. The specificity of the details ¿ spindling out over and again ¿ never releases us. We¿re yanked along image by image, observation by observation. And, suddenly, it occurs that we¿re the angel going backwards with the world collapsing in our wake.¿ Forrest Gander Beginning inside the largest refugee camp in the world (Cox¿s Bazar) and ending up with Lorca in Granada, Places You Leave explores questions of travel, place / displacement, self / otherness, race, feminism, national and global politics. Through poems, poetic sequences and the lyric essay, Byrne considers a ¿poethics¿ of place and speaks back to the complex nature of human experience. In his most hybrid work to date, including original collages from seven different countries, Byrne advocates for activist but peaceful ways in which language might challenge existing social structures and the dynamics of power. James Byrne is a poet, editor and translator, renowned for his commitment to international poetries and poetics. Places You Leave is his fourth collection from Arc, his previous collections being Blood / Sugar (2009), White Coins 2015) and The Caprices (2019). Also for Arc he has co-edited the anthologies Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets (2012) with ko ko thett, Atlantic Drift (2017) with Robert Sheppard (co-published with Edge Hill University Press) and I Am a Rohingya (2019), with Shehza Doja. He is Arc¿s International Editor for Arc and is currently a Reader in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University.
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Poet, editor, and translator James Byrne was born in the UK. He is the author of the poetry collections Everything that is Broken Up Dances (Tupelo Press, 2015), White Coins (Arc, 2015), and Blood/Sugar (Arc, 2009). He earned an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was awarded a Stein Fellowship. Byrne was the poet in residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University in England. He is the international editor for Arc Publications and the editor of The Wolf, which he cofounded in 2002.Byrne's poems have been translated into several languages-including Arabic, Burmese, and Chinese-and he has given poetry readings across the world. The poet John Kinsella wrote: "James Byrne is a phenomenon and Blood/Sugar is astonishing. Byrne has a razor-sharp wit, an acute intellect and a superb facility with language. The poetry he writes is both culturally and intellectually 'learned', but also rhetorically and lyrically confident. He is a complete original." Forrest Gander wrote of Everything Broken Up Dances that it is "like gulping firewater shots of the world."Byrne cotranslated and coedited Bones Will Crow (Arc, 2012), the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry to be published in English. He is the coeditor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, (Bloodaxe, 2009) and editor of The Wolf: A Decade (2012). He is currently coediting Atlantic Drift: an Anthology of Poetry & Poetics, featuring poets from the US, UK, and Canada.Byrne lives near Liverpool, England.