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Issue 22.

June,

2022

In our twenty-second issue, we highlight the work of acclaimed Mexican writer Fabio Morábito, along with the thriving community of literary translators living in Tulsa, Oklahoma thanks to the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. We also feature interviews with Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi and translator Robin Myers, an illustrated dossier of haikus in Maya languages, and exclusive previews of upcoming titles in translation from Camila Sosa Villada, Verónica Zondek, and Fernanda Melchor.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: June 2022

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Fabio Morábito

The Stateless Verse of Fabio Morábito

By Francisco José Cruz

The Hiker

By Ana García Bergua

The Tears of a Tongue

By Gina Saraceni

The Mobile Homes of a Precocious Traitor and an Honest Thief

By Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

Fabio Morábito: “I have forayed into the novel more as a poet than as a novelist”

By Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

Dossier: Translation in Tulsa

Cognate Territories: Translating Latin America from Oklahoma

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

“Translation”, from Dislocations

By Sylvia Molloy

An Excerpt from A Long Day in Venice

By Abel Posse

Winter Postcard

By Adriana Candia

A Chapter of Man Made of Paper

By João Almino

Fiction

In the Body a Voice

By Maximiliano Barrientos

Roberto Bolaño and Natalie Portman in a Motel

By Cástulo Aceves

The Remnants of the Banquet

By Ana García Bergua

Poetry

Six Poems

By Óscar Hahn

Viper

By María Baranda

Five Poems

By Lauren Mendinueta

The Guts and the Skin

By Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

Four Poems

By Fernando Carrera

Five Poems

By Wendy Guerra

“I flowered” & “Academia”

By David Rosenmann-Taub

Essays

Héctor Murena: Between the Superficial and the Unfathomable

By Guillermo Cerceau

The Hell All Mothers (and Literatures) Fear

By María Julia Rossi

Dante and Borges

By Carolina Depetris

Interviews

Liliana Colanzi: “The literature of irreality let me sink into a stranger world”

By Marcelo Rioseco

Robin Myers: “I approach translation as a cover artist”

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

Indigenous Literature

The Beauty and Impossibility of Indigenous Literature in Translation: A Manifesto

By Christian Elguera Olortegui

Four Poems with Maya Glyphs

By Hector Rolando Xol Choc (Aj Chab’in)

Six Haikus

By Antonio Guzmán Gómez

Five Illustrated Haikus

By Canario de la Cruz

LALT CLASSICS

The Feather Bolster

By Horacio Quiroga

FROM WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

In Colombia, Treading the Border between Memory and Magic: A Conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

By Erik Gleibermann

Translation Previews and New Releases

An Excerpt from Bad Girls

By Camila Sosa Villada

Excerpts from Cold Fire

By Verónica Zondek

An Excerpt from Paradais

By Fernanda Melchor

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: June 2022

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Estrella madre by Giuseppe Caputo

By Andrea Salgado

Banzai: Violencia en la carretera by Roberto Rubiano Vargas

By Marta Orrantia

Un objeto afilado by Alexandra Maia

By Josué Cabrera Serrano

Caen cenizas sobre la ciudad by Carolina Cárdenas

By César Hidalgo Vera

Jardines/Gardens by Carlos Cociña

By Diego Alegría

Las paces: Antología 1958-2016 by Rafael Cadenas

By Alberto Hernández

Los hombres sin manos by José Hoyos Bucheli

By Jacobo Arango Llanos

Raíz de la ausencia by Carlos Vicéns

By Marta Jazmín García

Desalma de los adioses by Susy Delgado

By Juan Martins

Hormigas en la lengua by Lena Yau

By Raquel Rivas Rojas

metaverse by Luis Correa-Díaz

By Sam McCracken

Kloaka & Los Subterráneos: El instinto de vivir by Roger Santiváñez

By Víctor Vimos

Los Jiménez by Alberto Sánchez Argüello

By José Ygnacio Ochoa

Casa de ciudad by Gisela Kozak Rovero

By Claudia Cavallin

Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu

By Emily Hunsberger


Contra Natura by Rodolfo Hinostroza

By César Ferreira

Imagen de Jauja by Edgardo Rivera Martínez

By Carlos H. Hurtado Ames

Cam Girl & Other Poems by Fiorella Terrazas

By Miguel Ildefonso Huanca

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