Interviews
Alina Reyes on Desire, Class, and the Gulag for Writers contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Alina Reyes about eroticism and class, independence from the publishing world, and what it means to earn one’s freedom.
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Porvin, Aleksey
Poet, essayist, and literary critic. Editor-in-Chief of The Rang Yan Review.
Publications in The Rang Yan Review
Interviews
Thomas Fink on Difficult Poetry, Yinglish, and the Political contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Thomas Fink about difficult poetry, Yinglish syntax, and whether a poem can carry political force without becoming a slogan or a blueprint.
- interviews
- poetry
- poetics
Conversation With
Michael Lee Rattigan and Mario Domínguez Parra on Trilce contemporary
In this conversation, Aleksey Porvin, editor-in-chief of The Rang Yan Review, poet, essayist, and translator, speaks with the poets and translators Michael Lee Rattigan and Mario Domínguez Parra about their new English translation of César Vallejo’s Trilce (1922). Their starting point is the book’s fractures: broken syntax, deformed words, invented typos. They ask whether these ruptures are the marks of private grief, of a colonial linguistic history, or of both at once, and what it means to carry such a rupture into another language rather than repair it. The talk moves from prison and loss to the language of the ledger, the writ, and the inventory in which Vallejo’s dispossession was recorded, and finally to translation itself as shared labour: two translators, two sets of hands, a disagreement that stays in the English as a trace. Fluency, they suggest, may be less a virtue than a crime scene.
- translation
- poetry
- poetics
Interviews
Cathryn Shea on the Particular, Memory, and the Social Life of Things contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Cathryn Shea about the particular as a way of knowing, the ghost of memory, and whether a poem can make the social life of ordinary things visible.
- interviews
- poetry
- poetics
Interviews
Sheila E. Murphy on Form, Listening, and the Not-Yet contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Sheila E. Murphy about constraint and freedom, the distributed poetic I, and whether experimental poetry can still refuse the language of exchange.
- interviews
- poetry
- poetics
Interviews
Apoplexius: Interview with Louis Bourgeois contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Louis Bourgeois about writing from the glands, class that enters the sentence, and the prison as the place where a bourgeois order shows its face.
- interviews
- poetry
- poetics
Criticism
Party Line by Kyle Carrero Lopez contemporary
On queer space, late capitalism, and the politics of the dance floor in Kyle Carrero Lopez’s Party Line. Aleksey Porvin is Editor-in-Chief of The Rang Yan Review.
- poetry
- criticism
- capitalism
Essays and Philosophy
The Body Before the “We”: Embodied Solidarity and the Emergence of Political Subjectivity contemporary
On bodily co-presence, movement, and the conditions of political speech. Aleksey Porvin is Editor-in-Chief of The Rang Yan Review.
- politics
- philosophy
- theory