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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.

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FEATURED AUTHOR

Fabio Morábito

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The Stateless Verse of Fabio Morábito

by Francisco José Cruz
Sometime around 1996, when I had just started corresponding with the poet Antonio Deltoro, he sent me a parcel containing a few books by himself and some friends. Among them was Del lunes todo el año by Fabio Morábito, about whom I had heard relatively little. A few nights after receiving this generous gift, when we were about to go...

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 Malcom Dixon
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"Translation", from Dislocations
by Sylvia Molloy​
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An Excerpt from A Long Day in Venice
by Abel Posse​
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Winter Postcard
by Adriana Candia​
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A Chapter of Man Made of Paper
by João Almino
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Cognate Territories:
Translating Latin America from Oklahoma
by Arthur Malcom Dixon
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"Translation", from Dislocations
by Sylvia Molloy​
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An Excerpt from A Long Day in Venice
by Abel Posse​
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Winter Postcard
by Adriana Candia​
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A Chapter of Man Made of Paper
by João Almino
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FEATURED AUTHOR
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
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From World Literature Today
From World Literature Today

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

by Erik Gleibermann
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essays

Héctor Murena: Between the Superficial and the Unfathomable

by Guillermo Cerceau
I begin with a quote that, except for certain perspectives, both of the writer in question and of the writer of this text, in different times would have been applicable…

The Hell All Mothers (and Literatures) Fear

by María Julia Rossi
It’s no exaggeration to claim that motherhood has taken Spanish-language literature by storm in these first decades of the twenty-first century. From relatively marginal characters—when not overshadowed or simply invisible—mothers…

Dante and Borges

by Carolina Depetris
In September of this year, seven hundred years have passed since the death of Dante Alighieri, which has motivated numerous homages. Why, seven hundred years later, do we celebrate an…
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EDITOR'S PICK

Estrella madre by Giuseppe Caputo

  • by Andrea Salgado
There is nothing dizzying about what happens in Estrella madre, the second novel from Colombian writer Giuseppe Caputo. There is no chain of events that…

Un objeto afilado by Alexandra Maia

  • by Josué Cabrera Serrano
In Un objeto afilado, a collection of poems by Brazilian writer Alexandra Maia, there is a spark of dissatisfaction that creates a tension between what…

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

  • by Víctor Vimos
What’s in the gaze? An attempt to place what is rooted, among the mist, in a state of language that allows, in some way, to…

Casa de ciudad by Gisela Kozak Rovero

  • by Claudia Cavallin
The cover of this book—sporting an image of an open door amongst ruins, and a play on words—has a certain look to it which attracts…
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A Second Pair of Eyes: A Conversation with Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Lorenza Garcia, Nick Caistor

Two Short Stories from The Things We Don’t Do

by Andrés Neuman

Clarice, Childhood, and Chickens

by Sylvia Georgina Estrada

The Passion According to G.H.

by Victoria de Stefano
indigenous literature

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

by Christian Elguera

Four Poems with Maya Glyphs

by Hector Rolando Xol Choc (Aj Chab’in)

Six Haikus

by Antonio Guzmán Gómez
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fiction

In the Body a Voice

by Maximiliano Barrientos
He was growing paler and paler. Through the car window, he watched the landscape crumble in the speed. It doesn’t hurt any more, my brother said. He took his hand…

Roberto Bolaño and Natalie Portman in a Motel

by Cástulo Aceves
It’s 2:00 in the afternoon on Monday when he gets up from his desk, leaving his computer in a state of hibernation. He has a couple of hours to eat…

The Remnants of the Banquet

by Ana García Bergua
Aída Betanzos, the woman in apartment 8, teaches math at a college. She lives alone and has few worries, scarcely any relatives, and an occasional furtive affair with another professor,…
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LALT CLASSICS: HORACIO QUIROGA
LALT Classics

The Feather Bolster

by Horacio Quiroga
Her honeymoon was one long shiver. She was blonde, angelic and shy, and her husband’s harsh nature chilled her young girl’s dreams of being a bride.  Yet she loved him dearly, although sometimes with a slight shudder whenever, returning home together at night along the streets, she cast a furtive glance at the tall figure of Jordan, who had not said a word for an hour. For his part, he…
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poetry

Six Poems

by Óscar Hahn

Viper

by María Baranda

Five Poems

by Lauren Mendinueta
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Translation Previews and New Releases

An Excerpt from Bad Girls

by Camila Sosa Villada
The night air in the Park is dense, dark, and freezing. The ancient trees, recently stripped of their leaves, look askance to the heavens, pleading for some obscure boon essential…

Excerpts from Cold Fire

by Verónica Zondek
I climb the hill/ I see the lake/ and in the lake the mountains/ the dead trunks/ the living and tongueless tale/ the extinguished dream/ the clouds that pass/ and…

An Excerpt from Paradais

by Fernanda Melchor
That’s how it all began, he’d tell them. A few days later, when they got plastered again with the money fatboy lifted from his grandparents and passed on to Polo…
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BOOK REVIEWS

Banzai: Violencia en la carretera by Roberto Rubiano Vargas

by Marta Orrantia

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

Los Jiménez by Alberto Sánchez Argüello

by José Ygnacio Ochoa

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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