YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL, Kathleen Heil's debut poetry collection, traverses Berlin, London, New York, New Orleans, and Madrid. With guest appearances from the work of Andy Warhol, Trajal Harrell, John Berger, Marina Abramovic , and Gilda Radner, among others, Heil examines, with wry humour, life, love, violence, art, and cows under late capitalism. Giorgio Agamben once said all poems are either elegies or hymns. Heil's work sings between these two registers: take it, baby.

Praise for Kathleen's literary translations: "Heil's translations are themselves works of the highest literary refinement and ingenuity." Wayne Kostenbaum -------- "What an ingenious way of translating ... a true delight ... Such a gift proves true throughout this all-in-all inventive rendering." Mary Ann Caws --------- "Heil translates ... with a sensitivity to the differences between the way the two languages convey distinctions of meaning." -------- Daniel Barbiero, Arteidolia -------- "Heil has deftly captured the nimble verve ... of the originals." Sylee Gore, Harriet Books

About the Author

Kathleen Heil is a writer/translator and choreographer/performer whose poetry, fiction, and translations appear in The New Yorker, The Common, The Stinging Fly, The Paris Review, and other journals. She is also the translator of The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim's collected poems, and of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Letters to Annie and Oskar Mu ller-Widmann. Born and raised in New Orleans, she presently resides in Berlin.

Reviews

"Kathleen Heil reminds us of the bittersweet splendours of choosing to move through the world with an open heart. Reading You Can Have It All, I was taken by the poems' linguistic verve, their fearless self-revelation, their sincere efforts to love a world in trouble." Donna Stonecipher --------- "A feast of delicious odes, You Can Have It All masterfully invites you inside the conversation we're trying to have with an impossible world, of granular psycho-fervour, of contradictions, of loves and joys, fleeting, those within which you know you're meant to revel, however much we're lost to time's indifference." Michael Salu ---------- "In her debut poetry collection, Kathleen Heil unleashes a poetic kinesis teeming with sophisticated splendour. You Can Have It All gives shape to 'curious, furious beauty,' gifting us poems determined to 'sit inside the yet.' This book is bright with becoming." Geffrey Davis ---------- "Heil bends languages and time to create a space between spaces." Giuliana Kiersz

Book Information
ISBN 9781913430184
Author Kathleen Heil
Format Paperback
Page Count 86
Imprint MOIST
Publisher MOIST