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Vulgar Mechanics “reverberates with linguistic, erotic, and environmental energy” (Canadian Literature Review) and “defiantly playful…deliciously butch swagger” (Montreal Review of Books) while asserting “a fierce argument for multiplicity and inclusion” (Harvard Review). 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Deep Vellum, Dallas, March 2023 Composed from the memoirs and biographies of 100 Icelandic midwives, poet-historian Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s found poems illuminate the dangers and valor of birthwork. Forgoing traditio`nal sagas of androcentric conquest, these poems center the adventures of ljósmæður, “mothers of light.” Tómasdóttir leverages epic elements—dashing mountain treks, rivers forded on horseback, unyielding compassion—to challenge how and by whom stories become legend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac94943da02bc1d1cc1009b/7a96207d-1b64-466e-8fdd-944b610e51b8/51kXPvVE8NL._SX355_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg translation - Stormwarning Stormviðvörun by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir Phoneme Media, Los Angeles, 2018 “Feminine decadence is the best and stickiest.” Stormwarning opens with “Bubbly in the Vulva”, a poem that uses tax jargon to critique inequitiies in gendered work. Spinning sexist condescension into spoonfuls of sugar, the collection traces the tension between economic interests, environmental damage, and morality. We want to be—or at least to be seen as—good. We are at the mercy of the weather, which has no such concept. Destruction is on the horizon: we hope and fear for it. We “get the grills inside.” One way or another, we will be satisfied. 2019 PEN America Literary Award Nominee, Poetry in Translation Winner of the American Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac94943da02bc1d1cc1009b/004b308c-4733-4437-b3c3-7f00b7fa9c98/susanne-walstr-m-black-lava-fairy-tale-31.jpeg translation - Black Lava Fairy Tale By photographer Susanne Walström, Original text by Hildur Knútsdóttir Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2018 Swedish photographer Susanne Walström’s richly colored photographs depict the majesty of Icelandic horses and their environment, drawing connections to the historic role of the horse in Norse mythology. Featuring Hildur Knútsdóttir’s evocative prose and K.B. Thors’ English translation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac94943da02bc1d1cc1009b/133f51b6-665e-4788-86a3-e89eff0622fd/9781946433084.jpg translation - Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else Chintungo: la historia de alguien más By Soledad Marambio Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2017 A boy-turned-man-turned father, refracted in the poems of his daughter. Through her father’s photos, Marambio traces her family’s movement from mule-drawn trains in rural Chile to VCRs in Pinochet’s Santiago, examining identity, origin, and unknowable history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac94943da02bc1d1cc1009b/1603854113902-S2JJL4EUT592OUR3JKAC/Tito-front-Cover%400.jpg translation - Tito By Marcelo Simonetti Ian Randle Publishing, Kingston, 2017. Tito is bewildered by the world of adults, those strange humans who kiss on the lips and never stop working. Anxious about growing up and his mom’s new boyfriend, Tito grounds himself through football and his Los Ángeles Rojos. A novel in the form of Tito’s diary, this laugh out loud coming-of-age story explores masculinity, play, and love. Commissioned by the Chilean Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago, funded by the Dirección de Asuntos Culturales del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile. https://kbthors.com/books daily 0.75 2023-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac94943da02bc1d1cc1009b/dd072d67-e1d1-44f7-96c1-fe1e9051e20c/9781552453988_cover1_rb_modalcover.jpg books - Vulgar Mechanics Coach House Books, fall 2019 English-Spanish translation by Soledad Marambio in progress Reviews Harvard Review Barrelhouse Magazine Montreal Review of Books Arc Poetry Magazine https://kbthors.com/prose daily 0.75 2023-01-08 https://kbthors.com/about daily 0.75 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac94943da02bc1d1cc1009b/8fffc4b4-8e39-4d8b-9ce7-e39735b62ec2/IMG_2511.jpg about https://kbthors.com/home daily 1.0 2023-01-07