“Reading by the Light of Pedro Lemebel’s Flame” Published in Laid Off New York, 2021
Losing Lorca: a mixtape critique
“Losing Lorca showcases a powerful new voice in experimental queer criticism and translation. Olive Esther Kuhn’s words—both in translating Lorca’s work and writing their own—are precise and exquisite, and their care for both semantic meaning and aesthetic sensibility are evident in each syllable. Losing Lorca: a mixtape critique shows Kuhn’s commitment to listening to other voices in imagining a historical queer collective that shifts and bends across time and space.”
–Natalie Prizel
from Recto y Verso Editions, Inc.
Pink Telemachus (signed)
A collaboration between Olive Esther Kuhn and artist Olivia Caro, Pink Telemachus navigates gender and queerness in Homer’s The Odyssey and in contemporary life. Limited Edition poetry chapbook with handmade cover, made from recycled cotton rag paper. - $15.00 US via PayPal
“Kuhn’s translations [in Losing Lorca] and interpretations of Lorca’s work are deep and robust!…the book’s crowning achievements is its format, one that is new to the world of books, the form of a mixtape...refer[ring] to songs that connect them to Lorca’s own theory…Kuhn [also] cites academics including: Jose Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Bishop, and Frank O’Hara…Despite the book drawing influence from many different sources, it also reflects Kuhn personal experiences and their specific environments...All in all, Losing Lorca: a mixtape critique, proved to hold much more than I could have ever guessed based on the number of pages. It does not cross or redefine the boundaries of literature, but completely erases them. It is not a critique, a collection, or a personal essay, it is all of these things….It is as much about Frederico García Lorca, as it is about Olive Esther Kuhn, as it is about literary theory, gender, sexuality, politics, and the nature and nonexistence of boundaries in literature. Losing Lorca is a concise expedition into the nature of literature and its power to materialize an incorporeal world.”
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— Review by Kelly Smith, OF LITERARY MINDS
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Losing Lorca: a mixtape critique by Olive Esther Kuhn
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