Book Bundles are here!

 

Summer is a great time for reading, and we have four new chapbook + full-length bundle selections now available on the Veliz Books site! 

Choose from the Uruguayan Poets bundle, Prose selections, 2022 Poetry selections (2 options), or the Maritime bundle! Bundles are a great way to find new voices and get a taste of what Veliz Books + Toad Press have to offer. Shop bundles and save at https://veliz-books.square.site!

Here are your excellent bundle options:

Uruguayan Poets bundle ($33):

• The Lady of Elche by Amanda Berenguer, translated by Kristin Dykstra +
  
• We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal, translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas +
  
• Anti-Ferule by Karen Wild Díaz, translated from the Spanish by Ron Paul Salutsky
  

Prose selections bundle ($23):

• Splendid Anatomies by Allison Wyss +
  
• The Seamstresses by Elena Poniatowska, translated from the Spanish by Rowena Galavitz +
  
• The Meat Market by Shaheen Akhtar and Mashiul Alam, translated from the Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

2022 Poetry selections bundle ($23):

• Void Odyssey, a book-poem-performance by Renato Negrão, translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Sarah Rebecca Kersley +
  
• In the Gloom on the Left, poems by Joyce Mansour, translated by Molly Bendall +
  

And 1 of the following books:

• Year of the Murder Hornet, by Tina Cane or
  
• Share the Wealth, by Maureen Thorson

Maritime bundle ($23)

• The Hole in the Ocean, short stories by Kathleen March +
  
• Tail of the Whale, poems by Alice Sant'Anna, translated from the Portuguese by Tiffany Higgins +
  
• mainland, poems by stinne storm

In the Gloom on the Left

 

In the Gloom on the Left

Joyce Mansour

translated from the French

by Molly Bendall

21 pages, paper

Toad Press/Veliz Books, 2022. $6.00

Cover image is modified from “#3, Menhai [Sekhmet],” 1841, found in The New York Public Library Digital Collections.  

You can purchase a copy of In the Gloom on the Left on Etsy or from Submittable.

Joyce Mansour (1928-1986), of Egyptian origin, wrote primarily in French and was associated with the Surrealist movement. She published over a dozen collections of poetry, from 1953 through the 1980s. Her poems combine a feral eroticism along with a sly sense of humor, bringing a defiant new female voice to the latter stages of the Surrealist scene. 

 

Molly Bendall is the author of five collections of poetry, including Watchful from Omnidawn Press and Under the Quick from Parlor Press. Omnidawn will also be publishing her next collection, Turncoat. Recent poems and reviews have appeared in Lana Turner, New American Writing, Tupelo Quarterly, Volt, LA Review of Books, and other journals. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.  

read the poem "Breastplate," featured in Verse Daily, at http://www.versedaily.org/2023/breastplate.shtml