EQUESTRIAN MONUMENTS
by LUIS CHAVES
Trans. Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim
After Hours Editions, Fall 2021
Translation of Equestrian Monuments by Luis Chaves forthcoming!
Author: samanthazighelboim
National Poetry Month at Boston Review
Thrilled to have two new co-translations from Luis Chaves’ Equestrian Monuments (Monumentos Ecuestres)—“Inventory” and “False Documentary”—up at Boston Review for National Poetry Month! #dreamteam #NaPoMo
2017 NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry
I’m so proud and honored to be a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry! And in such incredible company! Looking forward to using this extraordinary support to finish The Fat Sonnets.
New Essay Up @ Lit Hub
My essay about my complicated relationship with body positivity, “On the Poetics of Fatness,” is up on LitHub!
New Review of The Fat Sonnets in The Adroit Journal
Erica Bernheim’s review in The Adroit Journal is so thoughtful, meticulous, and smart–check it out! ❤
AMA on Reddit (r/books)
Come ask me some questions! I’m live for the next few hours at r/books answering questions about The Fat Sonnets, body positivity, desserts & more!
Review in Publisher’s Weekly
I’m quite late to posting this, but this lovely review of The Fat Sonnets came out in Publisher’s Weekly last month!
“Zighelboim opens by depicting the body as the site of a haunting… A body is more than its literal mass, Zighelboim writes, likening it to a vault for psychological material in need of liberation.”
New Interview up @ BOMB Magazine
Zachary Pace interviewed me for BOMB Magazine! I got to talk about the language of fatness, my earliest memories of it, eating together as a practice of love & lots more. ❤
“The people I most enjoy eating with are people who also find great joy in food….when I can openly appreciate the food, it’s the most wonderful thing in life. That being said, food is also—usually after an exquisite feast—a source of tension. Often with an eating disorder, you weaponize food against yourself. But I try to retain the memories of food joy as much as possible. When I think about people I love, I picture them during the best meals we’ve shared together.”
New Review of The Fat Sonnets at The Rumpus
Molly Fisk reviewed The Fat Sonnets for The Rumpus! 🐋
“The poems in The Fat Sonnets are by turns straightforward and oblique, funny and scathing, terribly sad and joyful, traditional and twisting, turning, somersaulted take-offs on sonnets.”
