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The Vicious Red Relic, Love by Anna Joy Springer

January 8, 2013 by Erica Mena

This may be one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. It begs me to speak in hyperbole about it, because I didn’t really know I could be so rocked by a book. The book calls itself “A Fabulist Memoir” and more or less that’s what it is. The memoir of a west-coast punk rock dyke in the early 90s trying to make sense of what she went through without trivializing it, stereotyping herself, and without diminishing the intensity, weirdness, […]

Categories: Reading Journal • Tags: anna joy springer, fabulist, memoir, punk rock, vicious red relic love

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Anomalous 7: Translation

November 16, 2012 by Erica Mena

Well, despite all sorts of technical difficulties including no internet this week, we launched the newest, latest issue of Anomalous! And I’m so happy about this issue. It has some really amazing artwork by Mike Edrington, for starters: After Life, a series of photographs made at the University of Iowa Natural History Museum and super eerie. It also has one of the coolest translation features we’ve done. Last year I read engulf — enkindle by Anja Utler translated by Kurt Beals (Burning Deck) […]

Categories: Poetry, Publishing, Translation • Tags: alexander blok, anja ulter, Anomalous, Anomalous Press, brandon holmquest, burning deck, engulf enkindle, essay, experimental, fiction, gaston fernandez, german, german poetry, interactive poetry, jen zoble, jennifer zoble, Kurt Beals, melina kameric, memoir, mike edrington, multiple translation, non-fiction, online journal, online literary journal, online magazine, online publishing, pierre menard, poetry, prose, russell scott valentino, russell valentino, russian, serbo-croatian, serbo-croatian fiction, serbo-croatian literature, short story, spanish, translation

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