Full Stop Quarterly: August 2017

This issue of the is concerned with the processes and systems that make up and facilitate writing and reading, and in particular with poetry, the perpetual avant-garde. Featuring:

• TED REES on Oakland, poetry, and radical empathy.
  
• ZHOU HAU LIEW & ZHOU SIVAN on translating Mahua poetry in Malaysia.
  
• NHÃ THUYÊN on dissidence and form in Vietnamese poetry.
  
• MARIANA ORANTES on poetry in Mexico City.
  
• TAMMY LAI-MING HO on the potential of English-language poetry in Hong Kong.
  
• ZALI GUREVITCH and ARIEL RESNIKOFF on contemporary Hebrew poetics.
  
• Poet JESÚS CARMONA-ROBLES talks with JOHN FARLEY about death and family in modern Mexico.
  
• MATTHEW JAKUBOWSKI on by Bae Suah.
  
• JEFF ALESSANDRELLI on the affinities between New York’s most mercurial lyricists, Frank O'Hara and Notorious B.I.G.
  
• DOUG PAUL CASE on reading Alex Dmitrov & Tommy Pico.
  
• SILVIA MOLLICCHI on the doubled reality of Marianne Moore's “Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns.”

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Read the intro to the issue here.