Hi-Density Politics
Urayoán Noel is the author of the book HI-DENSITY POLITICS (BlazeVOX Books, 2010) and the book/DVD KOOL LOGIC/LA LOGICA KOOL (Bilingual Press, 2005), as well as two collections of poetry in Spanish:Las flores del mall(object-book, 2000) andBoringkén(Ediciones Callejón/LaTertulia, 2008). A contributing editor ofMandorla, he is the translator of the chapbookBelleza y Felicidad(Belladonna*, 2005), and has translated a variety of Latin American and U.S. Latino/a poets. His reviews and essays have appeared inContemporary Literature,BOMB, andDiasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); and he has performed internationally, both solo and as part of Spanic Attack. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel divides his time between the South Bronx and upstate New York. He teaches English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he serves as a faculty advisor to the online poetics journalBarzakh.