The poetic voice and the cinematographic eye become mediums against oppression and despair by simply and clearly scanning what is there, repeatedly and impeccably, like the barcodes of condensed everyday life experience.

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

Prize Citation for “A Barcode Scanner,” 2021 Best Film for Tolerance

Thanks to their efforts to make the Indigenous literature of Mexico visible, interest in these minority voices in the world has grown significantly.

Víctor Terán

Binnizá poet

Shook’s commitment to translating and publishing minority voices has taken them on many intriguing—and dangerous—journeys.

Taking Flight: New Thinking on World Writing

My poems were once considered by Uyghur critics as constitutive texts of new Uyghur poetry in Uyghur culture, which is now forcibly disappeared after the Uyghur genocide committed by China. The US government recently recognized this genocide, but Shook published these poems years ago as the first Uyghur poetry book translated into English.

Ahmatjan Osman

Uyghur poet and co-translator of Uyghurland

I like your mustache.

Jimmy Carter

President of the United States of America