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Cityscapes
Our surroundings affect us. They are the palette on which we develop our lives, our beliefs, and our feelings. The great twentieth-century Kabbalist Rav Ashlag explains that “just as the seed that is sown in the ground manifests its potential only through its environment,” that is, the quality of the soil, the amount of water or sunlight available, “once the individual has chosen his environment, he is subjected to it like clay in the hands of a potter.”
It is well known that people ascribe different cities with their own identities; our urban landscapes most certainly have their own unique way in which they are represented in culture, film, and writing. But what interested me for this project was how those identities are so often transplanted onto their inhabitants. And while dispute continues over terminology to define contemporary literature, there is an undeniable shared quality in how we write, publish, and take in literature in the internet era.
The “cityscapes” in this project are reflections on the urban environments that we all know and how the current generation of writers relates to them.
It is well known that people ascribe different cities with their own identities; our urban landscapes most certainly have their own unique way in which they are represented in culture, film, and writing. But what interested me for this project was how those identities are so often transplanted onto their inhabitants. And while dispute continues over terminology to define contemporary literature, there is an undeniable shared quality in how we write, publish, and take in literature in the internet era.
The “cityscapes” in this project are reflections on the urban environments that we all know and how the current generation of writers relates to them.
277 pages, ebook
First published November 9, 2012
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Jacob Steinberg
18 books13 followersJacob Steinberg (b. 1989, Stony Brook, NY) is a poet and translator. He has published Magulladón (2012) and Ante ti se arrodilla mi silencio (2013; published in English as Before You Kneels My Silence, 2014). He is Cecilia Pavón's English translator, and also translated Mario Bellatin and CAConrad, among others. He is the Associate Director of Triana, an independent publishing house based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
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November 10, 2012
Genial, menudo lujo.
June 22, 2018
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