The best way to stay in touch with my work is to subscribe to my newsletter: https://rgould.substack.com.

I am the author of Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (2023), The Persian Prison Poem (2021) and Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016). With Malaka Mohammad Shwaikh, I wrote Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine (2023).

I translate from Persian, Georgian, and Russian. My most recent translation with Kayvan Tahmasebian, House Arrest: Poems of Hasan Alizadeh (Arc Publications, 2022), was awarded a PEN Translates Award from English PEN. I have a particular passion for translating poetry, much of which I have done with Iranian poet Kayvan Tahmasebian.

I grew up mostly in the US, and have lived and worked in Berlin, Tbilisi, Singapore, Palestine, and Budapest.

I review books at my newsletter The Textual Materialist (https://rgould.substack.com/) and on my YouTube channel, Poetry & Protest (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGbz...). You can see a log of the books I read on my website, though it hasn't been updated in a while: https://rrgould.hcommons.org/what-im-....

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