A PUNCH IN THE GUT OF A STAR / UN COP DE PUNY AL VENTRE D'UNA ESTRELLA

Authors: Emma Gomis and Anne Waldman

Publisher: Pamenar Press (2022)

A PUNCH IN THE GUT OF A STAR / UN COP DE PUNY AL VENTRE D'UNA ESTRELLA is a bilingual collaborative poetry chapbook that meditates on telepathy in the pandemic.

This chapbook is a new collaborative poetry collection by Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis written in English and Catalan. The chapbook aims for telepathy between two poets during a quasi-quarantine or what is colloquially referred to as a 'covid-pod.' On many levels this collaboration is a reminder of poetry's power and of its trajectory as true psychic shelter.

A PUNCH IN THE GUT OF A STAR / UN COP DE PUNY AL VENTRE D'UNA ESTRELLA speaks to everyone who has gone through the past few years. Those who have feared breathing the air and who have been cautious of the poisonous surfaces of all things. These poems layer our pandemic fears and juxtaposes them on the page while paying close attention to the binaries of translation and numerical marks between the two languages of the book.