{"id":2282,"date":"2014-10-24T19:56:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2014-10-24T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:56:35","slug":"new-issue-of-asymptote-with-margento-chris-tanasescu-on-board-as-editor-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"New Issue of Asymptote–with MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu) on board as Editor-at-Large"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our mythology edition! Catch our video trailer here. From the \u201ckiss of death\u201d Danish textbook representative Erik Langkj\u00e6r shared with Flannery O\u2019Connor-in an exclusive account sixty years after the fact-to the \u201csynthetic saint\u201d in Tedi L\u00f3pez Mills\u2018 experimental poetry and the \u201cdivine fairy tale\u201d in Shi Tiesheng\u2018s memoir of disability, modern myth permeates this issue, knocking elbows with characters from old-world mythology.
\nYou\u2019ll find an aging Minotaur transplanted to Amsterdam\u2019s red-light district, Hamlet\u2019s Norse ancestor reincarnated in operatic form, and biblical vine-growers at a corporate event schmoozing up to their ultimate shareholder, God. What\u2019s more, many of this issue\u2019s writers and poets are themselves legendary figures: Mohammed Said Abdulla and Ch\u2019oe In-ho blazed a trail for fiction in Tanzania and South Korea respectively, whereas Ukraine\u2019s Serhiy Zhadan and Bengal\u2019s Joy Goswami belong to that rare breed: poet superstars.<\/p>\n

In our annual English poetry feature, poets take up myth, not simply as lie or cultural truth, but as the literary process by which certain narratives and images become naturalized, privileged, contested, and abandoned: Mary Jo Bang dramatizes a mythologization of the self in an atmosphere of surveillance; Michael Farrell recontextualizes Australian icons into what might be \u201csocially involved and meaningful \/ role(s)\u201d; and Zhou Sivan employs Greek, Chinese, and Catalan myths to question nationhood and reproductive love. Among our translated poets, the Japanese futurist Hirato Renkichi studies the \u201cline between the past and present and future, in ecstasy;\u201d Euphrase Kezilahabi\u2018s poet-figure enters \u201cthis forest \/ full of a century\u2019s darkness,\u201d emerging as the modern Swahili writer he is today; while Galician writer Mar\u00eda do Cebreiro depicts a fragmented lover\u2019s discourse.<\/p>\n

A central motif in myth, transformation recurs in many of this issue\u2019s stories (as well as in Brazilian artist Odires Ml\u00e1szho\u2019s \u201cAltered Books\u201c). In \u201cNews of a Girl Lost at Sea,\u201d an ignorant peasant woman is transformed into a saint for muttering the same nonsensical line every night (because, it turns out, \u201cGod doesn\u2019t care about the quality of the prayers themselves, just about the will behind them\u201d). In J. Rodolfo Wilcock\u2018s \u201cAram Kugiungian,\u201d transformation-and an extreme case of identity crisis-occur when our twenty-three-year-old protagonist suddenly realizes \u201che was also someone else or, indeed, several others.\u201d In the excerpt from Ch\u2019oe\u2019s Another Man\u2019s Story, set in a mysterious caf\u00e9, an ex-brother-in-law suddenly reappears before the protagonist-as a woman. More familial drama-with exes and in-laws-unfolds over a game of Monopoly in Ulrike Syha\u2019s tightly drawn \u201cDo Not Pass Go.\u201d With vivid colors and expressive strokes, Monika Grubizna, our talented guest artist, captures these and our new issue\u2019s many other moments of Sturm und Drang.
\nWith our fourth anniversary just around the corner, we\u2019re pleased to unveil a slew of events-in addition to our stops in Beijing on October 20 and in Hong Kong on November 6, appearances in fifteen more cities worldwide are being planned for our celebrations between January and April 2015. (Keep your eye on our Events page or follow us on Facebook and Twitter for breaking Asymptote news!) For our special feature in April 2015, we will be traveling fifty years back in time to explore the Vietnam War and its legacy. As you check out this feature\u2019s submission guidelines, don\u2019t forget that we also welcome submissions for our blog, which recently celebrated its first anniversary with the launch of a \u201cNew in Translation\u201d column, reviewing the latest titles each month.
\nFinally, if you\u2019re excited by all that we\u2019ve done and will do to stimulate the transmission of world literature, we want you to know that there are ways in which you can help. Consider a donation (we\u2019re newly tax-deductible in the US!) or a video endorsement for our upcoming Indiegogo campaign. Or just spread the word by downloading our high-resolution Fall issue flyer and getting it displayed at your local independent bookstore\/school\/caf\u00e9. After all, myths-and the best literary projects-continue only as long as people keep sharing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our mythology edition! Catch our video trailer here. From the \u201ckiss of death\u201d Danish textbook representative Erik Langkj\u00e6r shared with Flannery O\u2019Connor-in an exclusive account sixty years after the fact-to the \u201csynthetic saint\u201d in Tedi L\u00f3pez Mills\u2018 experimental poetry and the \u201cdivine fairy tale\u201d in Shi Tiesheng\u2018s memoir of disability, modern myth permeates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[74,169],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anunturi-culturale","tag-chris-tanasescu","tag-margento"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}