OJudith Kiros (trans. Kira Joseffson) Swedish poet Judith Kiross widely acclaimed debut stretches boundaries of genre, race, and gender in an alternative production of Shakespeares Othello that sidesteps black death for a multitude of futures. Taking a cue from Derek Walcotts Omeros, Kiros employs metric verve and critical bite to add to Shakespeare a wide range of historical and contemporary works, producing a meditation on blackness that sets up a