“As a multi-lingual poet and translator who has brought the most complex and lyric propositions into a reactive, dynamic English, Michelle Gil-Montero knows that virtuosity appears effortless because of the extreme pressure which fires it: it springs through a torqued synapse, puts the twist in the Mobius strip.”
“Gil-Montero strives to find the precise words to evoke a reality that, though known to all of us, constantly eludes our understanding.”
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Poetry in translation from Spanish. Action Books, 2021.
Reviewed in The New York Times, Heavy Feather Review, and The Kenyon Review
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Lyric novel in translation from Spanish. Action Books, 2019.
Reviewed in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (54:1), Reading in Translation, January 2021, and Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Long poem in translation from Spanish. Action Books, 2015.
Semifinalist for the National Translation Award. Reviewed in Poetry Northwest, Starred Review in Publisher’s Weekly, Kenyon Review, Poesía en Acción, Em-dash, and Full Stop
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Prose poems in translation from Spanish. Action Books, 2013.
Reviewed in Montevidayo and HTML Giant
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Literary criticism n translation from Spanish. Action Books, 2013.
Reviewed in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine and Luna Luna
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Prose poems in translation from Spanish. Black Square Editions, 2022.
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Poetry in translation from Spanish. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022.
“Attentive as she is to the pre-semantic meanings of sound in Maria Negroni’s work, Michelle Gil-Montero is the ideal translator for these poems. Here, reliably brilliant and adaptive, Negroni sculpts lean, heuristic aphorisms and parables, a connected network of spells and insights that conjure a portrait of the spirit of our time, this living moment.” Forrest Gander
