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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

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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