Make it True Meets Medusario: A Bilingual anthology of Neobarroco & Cascadian Poets (Pleasure Boat Studio)

“Make It True meets Medusario brings together poets from divergent languages cultures and aesthetics to create a...conversation...a fertile meeting place for ongoing ideas about poetry that might trouble the all too-easy academic labels and the subsequent segregation those aesthetic and political divisions cause within the larger global poetry community.” -From the book’s introduction by Matthew Trease This collaboration spawned by two previous anthologies includes the Spanish language poets of the Neobarroco school as organized by José Kozer a Cuban Neobarroco poet together with poets from the Cascadia bioregion arranged by Paul E Nelson founder of the Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) and Thomas Walton editor-in-chief of Pageboy Magazine Seattle WA.Translated by Alejandro Carrillo and Dana Nelson; NEOBARROCO (Medusario) poets include: Carmen Berenguer Marosa Di Giorgio Roberto Echavarren Eduardo Espina Reynaldo Jiménez Tamara Kamenszain José Kozer Pedro Marqués de Armas Maurizio Medo Néstor Perlongher Soleida Ríos Roger Santiváñeaz and Raúl Zurita; CASCADIANS (Make It True) poets include: Stephen Collis Elizabeth Cooperman Sarah de Leeuw Claudia Castro Luna Nadine Maestas Peter Munro Paul E Nelson John Olson Shin Yu Pai Clea Roberts Cedar Sigo Matthew Trease and Thomas Walton