Author

Gordon, Coco

American poet, book artist, and translator (Lyons, Colorado). Her books include Superskywoman (Leonardi V-Idea, 1995), Knee (Ginocchio) (Porto dei Santi, 2000), and A Biomass Continuity (Go If Press, 2004). She translated Rita Degli Esposti’s Letters to the Nightingale (Longhouse, 2006).

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

Four Poems contemporary

Rita Degli Esposti

Domestic life emerges here as an unstable archive of historical violence, where the banal residues of consumption, childhood, family memory, and everyday survival bear the inscriptions of war, displacement, and ideological power. Through abrupt juxtapositions and fractured recollections, the texts unsettle the boundary between private experience and collective history, revealing how the grand machinery of political violence penetrates the most intimate spaces of human existence, while fragments of tenderness and imagination persist as fragile forms of resistance.

  • poetry
  • translation
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