Kiros & Josefsson: O – Translated by Kira Josefsson

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World Poetry Books, paperback

Publication Date: September 26, 2024

Translated by: Kira Josefsson

Publisher Marketing: Swedish poet Judith Kiros’s widely-acclaimed debut stretches boundaries of genre, race, and gender in an alternative production of Shakespeare’s Othello that sidesteps black death for a multitude of futures. Taking a cue from Derek Walcott’s Omeros, Kiros employs metric verve and critical bite to add to Shakespeare a wide range of historical and contemporary works, producing a meditation on blackness that sets up a new reflective surface at every turn.

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