literary & visual books across languages
Stenen Press books are a cross-pollination of languages and visual art. Our bilingual publications—in original language and English translation—support the idea of the border region as a space of extraordinary creative capacity, one that provides opportunities to reinvent geo-political and temporal spaces.
Valzhyna Mort, one of ten poet-translators featured in The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra, speaks to the symmetries between the visual art of the book and its poetry.