How You Like To Be AliveCatherine Kelly Published by Distance No Object Catherine Kelly is from Dublin and recently completed a PhD at Kings College London on lesbian literary networks in the mid twentieth century. Her writing has appeared in Chicago Review, Ludd Gang, Cardiff Review, Spam, and elsewhere. How You Like To Be Alive is her first book.

translated by Urayán Noel

and a current member of the Poetry Project Newsletter editorial collective

It is the fourth instalment in Ivan Cheng’s Confidences series

in spaces that serrate recollection

gratitude for the alphabet and for summer—as do urgent questions about our relationship with the world

In its radical mode of communal translation

van aantekeningen en een uitvoerig essay voorzien door dichter en poëzievertaler Bart Vonck

Micha Hamel (1970) is componist-dirigent en dichter

Jean Pierre Rawie

Filled with surprise and insight

De katten Hannes en Hassan

This translation presents it as an attempt - in the aftermath of the Trojan War - to remember people's names and lives without the use of writing