Released December 31st, 2021 // 60 pages // 978-1-913642-77-8
 
sometimes I write poems and sometimes I write poems is a witty, acerbic selection from the Mexican poet Martín Rangel. Rangel keeps an ear pressed to the modern world and its various indignities, his bleak humour is perfectly captured by Schimel, an award winning translator, serving up irreverent, ironic moments like 'I translate to steal' and 'i decay like the year'. This bilingual edition is an amusing and inventive introduction to an essential young poet. 
 
Martín Rangel (Pachuca, 1994) is a Mexican poet, translator and internet artist. He has published seven books of poetry. sometimes i write poems and sometimes i write poems is his first collection in English. Instagram: @martinrangel 
 
Lawrence Schimel's recent translation into English include Bomarzo by Elsa Cross (Shearsman), Poems the wind blew in by Karmelo C. Iribarren (The Emma Press) and Voice of the Two Shores by Agnès Agboton (forthcoming, flipped eye) and into Spanish George Takei's graphic novel memoir Nos llamaron enemigo (Top Shelf) and Maggie Nelson's Bluets (Tres Puntos).