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Issue 23.

September,

2022

In our twenty-third issue, we highlight the work of Black Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres, and we pay homage to Argentine writer Sergio Chejfec, a beloved exponent of Latin American letters whom we sadly lost this year. We also feature interviews with Ariana Harwicz, Rafael Gumucio, and PJ Pereira, a special selection of Cuban women poets, poetry and prose from the Peruvian Amazon in our Indigenous Literature section, and exclusive previews of new works in translation by Brenda Lozano, Jorge Enrique Lage, and Juan Pablo Villalobos.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: September 2022

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Featured Author: Mayra Santos-Febres

Mayra Santos-Febres: Affirming Blackness in the Caribbean and Latin America

  • by Jotacé López

From the Clay of Your Skin: Lessons from the Recent Work of Mayra Santos-Febres

  • by Nadia V. Celis Salgado

Sex, Violence, and the Archive in Mayra Santos-Febres’ Fe en disfraz

  • by William Luis
Dossier: Sergio Chejfec: In Memoriam

The Beginning and Culmination of the Work of Sergio Chejfec

  • by Victoria de Stefano

Among Friends

  • by Amigos de Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec: The Man Who Walked

  • by Matías Serra Bradford

Sergio: We Will Always Need You

  • by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza
INTERVIEWS

Rafael Gumucio: “With the Death of Nicanor Parra, the Happy Phase of Chilean Postmodernity is Over”

  • by Antonio Díaz Oliva

Ariana Harwicz: “I have always seen desertion as linked to literature”

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
From WLT

Odesa

  • by World Literature Today
Essays

Preface to La palabra quebrada: Ensayo sobre el ensayo by Martín Cerda

  • by Christopher Domínguez Michael

Failure and Allegory: Progression in the Poetic Narrative of Francisco Bitar

  • by Maximiliano Crespi
Indigenous Literature

Four Poems

  • by Dina Ananco

The Four Worlds

  • by Harry Roldan Pinedo Varela (Inin Metsa)
FICTION

Whirlpool

  • by Inés Garland

The Aleph

  • by Ahmel Echevarría Peré

Helpless Roger

  • by Enrique Serna
Dossier: Women Poets of the Cuban Diaspora

Añoranzas/Yearnings: Women’s Poetry of the Cuban Diaspora (1990-2021)

  • by Indranil Chakravarty
POETRY

Five Poems

  • by Edwin Madrid

Three Poems from Memory Rewritten

  • by Mariella Nigro

Two Poems from El libro de los caballitos

  • by Valeria Meiller

Three Poems

  • by Frank Báez

Three Texts with Photographs from Asphalt-Hell

  • by Adriano González León and Daniel González
Translation Previews and New Releases

From Invasion of the Spirit People

  • by Juan Pablo Villalobos

From Freeway: La Movie

  • by Jorge Enrique Lage

From Witches

  • by Brenda Lozano
ON TRANSLATION

Seeking Publisher: from Elusive Memory

  • by José Alcántara Almánzar

Seeking Publisher: from What Joan Didion Told Me—New York Chronicles

  • by Pedro Plaza Salvati
BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

From Other Songs

  • by Maria Valéria Rezende

PJ Pereira: “I invented a language that does not exist”

  • by Bruce Dean Willis
Book Reviews

Mundo visible. Poesía reunida (1995-2020) by Ismael Gavilán

  • by Ana María Riveros Soto

Elfo Corporativo by Rita González Hesaynes

  • by Eleonora Requena

En falso by Gabriela Kizer

  • by Olga Muñoz Carrasco

Los hermosos by Hernán Vera Álvarez

  • by Naida Saavedra

Entre el aliento y el precipicio: poéticas sobre la belleza / Between the Breath and the Abyss: Poetics on Beauty by Keila Vall de la Ville

  • by Luz Marina Rivas

El tercer mundo después del sol: Antología de ciencia ficción latinoamericana by Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez 

  • by Stephen Tobin

Veinte veintiuno by Laia Jufresa

  • by Michelle Clayton

La sombra del comandante by Luis Mora-Ballesteros

  • by José Francisco Velásquez Gago

Accidentes del ánimo by Gustavo Yuste

  • by Vanesa Almada Noguerón

Ciudad satélite by Carlos Villacorta Gonzales

  • by Juan Manuel Portillo

The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig 

  • by Eduardo Suárez Fernández-Miranda

El coleccionista de sombras by Javier Vásconez

  • by Carlos Burgos Jara

Talismanes para la fuga by Edda Armas

  • by María Antonieta Flores

Algo roto, algo quemado y algo negro. Antología improbable by Alma Karla Sandoval

  • by Ana Velarde

Como la flor: Voces de la poesía cuir colombiana contemporánea by Alejandra Algorta (compiler)

  • by Ivonne Alonso-Mondragón

The Lisbon Syndrome by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles

  • by Keila Vall de la Ville

Antes que llegue la luz by Mayra Santos-Febres

  • by Carlos A. Colón Ruiz

Repite conmigo by Gonzalo Henríquez

  • by Zenaida M. Suárez Mayor
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: September 2022

  • by LALT Team
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