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Rachel Galvin

Rachel Galvin’s latest books are a collection of poems, Elevated Threat Level (Green Lantern Press, 2018), a work of criticism, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 (Oxford UP, 2018), and Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo (Open Letter Books, 2018), which she translated from the Spanish with Harris Feinsod. Her other books include Pulleys & Locomotion (poems), Auden at Work (essays co-edited with Bonnie Costello), and Hitting the Streets (a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau), winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

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Poetry

In a Time of Thuggery

A great deal of what had been frozen in me
melted in America
Rachel Galvin

What You Put In Your Mouth

A new anthology creates a new canon of innovative Latin@ writing

Rachel Galvin
Poetry

Shank of the Day: An Epithalamion

Rachel Galvin

Lyric Backlash

Thoughts on the Oulipo and César Vallejo in Response to Calvin Bedient’s Complaint

Rachel Galvin

Looting

Female twists on Sophocles and Dante.
Rachel Galvin

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