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Issue 27.

September,

2023

In our twenty-seventh issue, poetry takes center stage with a cover feature on groundbreaking Peruvian poet Carlos Germán Belli and a dossier in homage to beloved Maya K’iche’ poet Humberto Ak’abal. We highlight the work of 2016 Neustadt Prize winner Dubravka Ugrešić in our section on world literature from World Literature Today, and in our Indigenous Literature section we feature a special selection of multilingual writing from the new anthology Daughters of Latin America. This issue also includes previews of new books in translation by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and Mexican writer Luis Felipe Fabre, as well as a reflection on translation from Robin Myers and excerpts from exciting books seeking publisher by Leonardo Valente and John Templanza Better.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: September 2023

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Carlos Germán Belli

The Alchemy of Verse: the Work and Poetics of Carlos Germán Belli

By Inmaculada Lergo

Notes for an Approach to Carlos Germán Belli

By Pedro Lastra

In Praise of Carlos Germán Belli

By Enrique Lihn

“Concern for Form”: A Conversation with Carlos Germán Belli

By Inmaculada Lergo

Eight Poems

By Carlos Germán Belli

Two Poems of Friendship

By Carlos Germán Belli & Pedro Lastra

Dossier: In Homage to Humberto Akʼabal

Humberto Ak’abal: The Singer of Stories

By Francisco José Cruz

Humberto Ak’abal: “I Am a Two-Headed Poet”

By Francisco José Cruz

I Am a Bird: My Flights Are Within Me

By Martín Tonalmeyotl

Five Poems

By Humberto Ak’abal

The Owls that Desire the Stars

By Robert Bly

ESSAYS

Ritual in Body and Word: Poetry Written by Afro-Colombian Women

By Angélica Hoyos Guzmán

Marcelo Cohen: The Great Seer

By Liliana Lara

FINALIST ESSAY: Alejandra Pizarnik: The Absolute Hidden in the Night

By Pablo Fernández Curbelo

World Literature from WLT

A Girl in Litland: The 2016 Neustadt Prize Lecture

By Dubravka Ugrešić

Dubravka Ugrešić and Contemporary European Literature: Along a Path to Transnational Literature

By Alison Anderson

Mothers and Daughters: Generational Conflict and Social Change in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić

By Emily D. Johnson

Fiction

The Aroma of Crunchiness

By Teresa Icaza

Hematoma

By Yael Weiss

An Excerpt from Someone Is Dying in San Onofre de Cuarumí

By Josefina Plá

POETRY

Four Poems

By Alonso Rabí do Carmo

Poems from History of Milk

By Mónica Ojeda

Three Poems from The Coming Desert

By Santiago Acosta

Poems from Traces of a Pair

By Teresa Korondi

Five Poems from Labor of Grief

By María Paulina Briones

Indigenous Literature

Daughters of Latin America: A New, Borderless Country of Us

By Sandra Guzmán

There Is No Stumble

By Alba Eiragi Duarte

Three Poems

By Natalia Toledo

Four Poems

By Rosa Chávez

Brazilian Literature

Excerpts from Journal of the War Against the Taedos

By Manoel Carlos Karam

Professor Pulquério

By José J. Veiga

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Secret Poetics, translated by Rebecca Kosick

By Hélio Oiticica

From Recital of the Dark Verses, translated by Heather Cleary

By Luis Felipe Fabre

ON TRANSLATION

The Beginning of Devotion:
On Translating Daniel Lipara’s Like the Night Inside the Eyes

By Robin Myers

Seeking Publisher: from D’s Cryogenics or a Manifesto for Lost Pleasures, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato

By Leonardo Valente

Seeking Publisher: from Limbo: A Story of Horror in the Caribbean, translated by George Henson and Michelle Mirabella

By John Templanza Better

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: September 2023

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Hambre nueva/New Hunger by Carlos A. Colón Ruiz

By Geraudí González Olivares

Temporal: Obra reunida by Ramón Cote Baraibar

By Daniel Arella

Imagina que rompes todo by Lina Munar Guevara

By Diana Andrade Melgarejo

Un reloj derramado en el desierto by Alejandro Susti

By Camilo Fernández Cozman

A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written: An Anthology of Venezuelan Poets in Chile by David M. Brunson (editor and translator)

By Néstor Mendoza

Entre los juncos y la baja tarde, seguido de La mudanza by Fabián O. Iriarte

By Vanesa Almada Noguerón

Diario de una huella by José Manuel López D’ Jesús

By José Ygnacio Ochoa

El bosque infinitesimal by Julián López

By Luis Carlos Azuaje

La nueva vida de Valdi Bonetti by Mori Ponsowy

By Blanca Strepponi

Los ríos profundos (edición conmemorativa) by José María Arguedas

By César Ferreira


Croac y el nuevo fin de mundo by Ricardo Sumalavia

By Paula Libuy P.

La hermosa carne: El cuerpo en la poesía puertorriqueña actual by Juan Pablo Rivera

By Daniel Torres

Ave Soul by Jorge Pimentel

By Roger Santiváñez

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