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LALT Number 9

Volume 1,

Number 9.

February,

2019

Latin American Literature Today begins its third year of publication with an issue that takes in Venezuelan poetry, the writing of indigenous women, and the strange worlds of fiction. We open the journal’s second volume with a dossier dedicated to Samanta Schweblin, an Argentine writer whose work tests the limits between the fantastic and the real, and then we shift to the poetry of Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, winner of the 2018 Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana. We also pause over Mapuche poetry, with a special selection of four young women poets who write in Mapuzungun and in Spanish, and we also stay up to date with the present debates surrounding one of the central figures of twentieth-century Latin American literature, Pablo Neruda, with an exclusive interview of his biographer Mark Eisner.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: February 2019

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin, the Digger of Stories

By Pablo Brescia

Samanta Schweblin: “Literature is the possibility of testing the paths of our deepest inner wars and returning to real life with vital information”: A Conversation with Arthur Dixon

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Samanta Schweblin

Fever Dream and the Elegy of the Present

By Gisela Heffes

The Order of Things: Pájaros en la boca

By Lucía De Leone

But Something Happens: Ruptures and Violences in El núcleo del disturbio

By Sandra Gasparini

Siete casas vacías, or That Which Never Finds Its Place

By Pablo Brescia

Dossier: Chicanx Literature

Chicanx Literature in Latin American Literature Today

By Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Three Poems

By José Rodríguez

Three Poems

By Demetria Martinez

Three Poems

By Iliana Rocha

Writing Around New Mexico in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God

By Anna M. Nogar

Nuevomexicana Electras: Locating Decolonial Desire in "The Five Wounds"

By Myrriah Gómez

Sueños del Coyote: the Emergence of Genízaros in the Nuevomexicano Literary Imagination

By Enrique R. Lamadrid

Chronicle

Havana for a Dead Castro

By José Antonio Moreno

Fiction

Technical Problems

By Nylsa Martínez

From The Animal Days

By Keila Vall de la Ville

Here

By María José Navia

Poetry

Speech of the Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, winner of the XXVIII Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana

By Rafael Cadenas

Four Poems

By Rafael Cadenas

Speech of Ricardo Rivero, Rector of the University of Salamanca, during the presentation of the XXVII Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana to Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas

By Ricardo Rivero

Rafael Cadenas: “Poor ‘I’ can’t fight the fact that we are mortal”: An Interview with Claudia Sierich

By Claudia Sierich, Rafael Cadenas

The Other Lesson/Reading from Poetry: Writing as Reality

By Luis Miguel Isava

The Poetry of Rafael Cadenas, or the Fallen Masks of the Feigning Poet

By Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

Essays

New Versions of the Central American Crime Novel: Moronga by Horacio Castellanos Moya

By José Juan Colín

Interviews

Mark Eisner: “Neruda is a resistance poet, and we are all thirsty for that”: An Interview with Roberto Brodsky

By Mark Eisner, Roberto Brodsky

"Poems Are Places We Pass Through": An Interview with Mara Pastor by Jotacé López

By Jotacé López, Mara Pastor

Indigenous Literature

From Cantos de amor al lucero de la mañana

By Adriana Paredes Pinda

Three Poems

By Roxana Miranda Rupailaf

From Trekan Antü

By María Isabel Lara Millapan

From Guerra Florida

By Daniela Catrileo

Mapuche Women’s Voices in Present-day Poetry

By Paula Miranda

Translation Previews and New Releases

From The Happy Death of William Carlos Williams

By Marta Aponte Alsina

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: February 2019

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Prins by César Aira

By Will H. Corral

The Arid Sky by Emiliano Monge

By Kevin Canfield

El gran farsante by Luis Carlos Azuaje

By Gustavo Valle

Hotel Sitges by Rodrigo Arriagada Zubieta

By Juan Arabia

La señorita que amaba por teléfono by Elisa Lerner

By Leonardo Rodríguez

Moronga by Horacio Castellanos Moya

By William Clary

Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue 1628 to the Present by Anna M. Nogar

By Diego Valdecantos

Testimony of Circumstances by Rodrigo Lira

By Scott Weintraub

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