The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow /
El alma se mueve en la sombra

$52.50

author, translator
author, translator
author, translator
author, translator
author, translator
author, translator
author, translator

2023 PubWest Book Design Awards Silver Winner
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist
2024 IBPA Book Award Silver Winner
2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) Bronze Winner

Translation as friendship. Translation in a fractured world. The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra offers dazzling imagery, original poetry, mutual translations, and collaborative essays. Swimming across borders, histories, and echoes, this groundbreaking anthology features creative partnerships that celebrate translation as equitable, intimate, and necessary.

โ€œThis book is close to the perfect incarnation of what a nomadic poetry & poetics needs to & can be.โ€ โ€”Pierre Joris, author of A Nomad Poetics and Always the Many, Never the One

โ€œbrilliant yet unruly translations, re-creations that interrogate the nature and method of translation itselfโ€ โ€”Kareem James Abu-Zeid, translator, editor, writer & scholar

โ€œvisually stunningโ€ โ€”IndieReader

โ€œIt is not a book one simply reads; itโ€™s an experience, a communion with the multifaceted soul of language.โ€ โ€”IndieReader


Translation as friendship. Translation in a fractured world. Our inaugural anthologyโ€”The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombraโ€”cross-pollinates five pairs of internationally-celebrated poets and a visual artist through original poetry, mutual translation, and collaborative essays about the act of translation. The artwork offers dazzling patterns that resonate with language, suggesting cosmologies of dissolution and rebirth.

In The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra, editors Kythe Maryam Heller and Carolina Gรณmez-Montoya position English within a constellation, one point on a journey that is both cyclical and fresh. Here, translation means intimate, living relationships that expand beyond language and that model social practice. The result is a life-affirming language all its own.

Keywords: Asian & Asian American Studies, European Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Poetry, Poetry Anthologies, Slavic Studies, Translation, Transnational Poetry