Two Lines 28

by C.J. Evans (Editor)

Two Lines continues its two decades' of excellence, hand-picking the best from translation's acknowledged masters and world literature's up-and-comers. This latest issue is back with poetry and prose from 11 different languages. It includes a scintillating literary tribute to Barbara Stanwyck by Abdellah Taia, the first openly gay Arab writer, as well as two twisty stories by Granta Best Young Spanish Language Novelist Carlos Labbe. The issue's rich poetry selection includes thrilling new work by Kiwao Nomura, the shocking avant-garde Japanese poet and Best Translated Book Award winner. As ever, with Issue 28 Two Lines continues to serve its years-long feast for globally minded readers.

156 pages, Paperback

Published March 13, 2018

About the author

CJ Evans is the author of A Penance, forthcoming from New Issues Press in October, and The Category of Outcast, selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets chapbook series. He co-edited, with Brenda Shaughnessy, Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, and his work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is editor of Two Lines Press, which publishes contemporary international literature in translation, and a contributing editor for Tin House. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and three-legged cat.