The Utopians by Grace Nissan

Built around a sequence written entirely with language from Thomas More’s Utopia, The Utopians invents a new world, from the pieces of the old one, to formally explore the contradictions of liberation. A series of letters to Thomas More, and a poem called "THE WORLD" about Utopia’s vexed escape, encircle the remixed no-place as they elaborate Utopia’s double edge.

Grace Nissan is the author of The City Is Lush With / Obstructed Views (DoubleCross Press), as well as the translator of kochanie, today i bought bread by Uljana Wolf (World Poetry Books) and War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets (New Direction / isolarii). Their translations of Yevgenia Belorusets were exhibited in the 59th Venice Biennale. They received a National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship to translate Ann Cotten’s Banned! An Epic Poem into English.