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LALT No. 18

Volume 1,

Number 18.

May,

2021

In our eighteenth issue, we feature the work of beloved Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez alongside that of João Cabral de Melo Neto, renowned Brazilian poet and third Latin American winner of the Neustadt Prize. We also highlight Latin American women poets, indigenous literature from Brazil, new works in translation, and a return to the essay through the words of Mariano Picón Salas.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: May 2021

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Featured Author: Reina María Rodríguez

“More than a place, exile is a literary genre”: An Interview with Reina María Rodríguez

  • by Eilyn Lombard, Reina María Rodríguez

After the Azotea

  • by Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Eight Poems

  • by Reina María Rodríguez

On Endurance: An Introduction to Writing by Reina María Rodríguez

  • by Kristin Dykstra
Dossier: João Cabral de Melo Neto

Three Poems

  • by João Cabral de Melo Neto

The State of Things in the Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto

  • by Richard Zenith

Lucid Objects of Language: Words of Thanks for the Neustadt Prize

  • by João Cabral de Melo Neto

The Rigors of Necessity

  • by Djelal Kadir
Brazilian Literature

Notes on the Margins: A View on Black Authorship in the Literature of Rio Grande do Sul

  • by Liliam Ramos

Aria to Listen To After the Pandemic

  • by Ana Elisa Ribeiro

The Trash-Pickers

  • by João Anzanello Carrascoza
Fiction

A Graveyard in My Garden

  • by Guillermo Fadanelli

Nobody Saw Them Leave

  • by Eduardo Antonio Parra

Three Microfictions

  • by José Cardona-López
Poetry

Three Poems

  • by Yolanda Pantin

Three Poems

  • by Micaela Paredes Barraza

Three Poems from Tundra

  • by Gabriela Clara Pignataro

Four Poems from Las grandes margaritas de la noche

  • by Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken
Essays

The Other Against the World: On the Fiction of Ariana Harwicz

  • by Maximiliano Crespi

Myth and Boom

  • by Dominique Lear

Graphic Novel and Armed Conflict: Thinking from Liborina

  • by Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez

The Poetry of Peruvian Writer Rossella Di Paolo

  • by Milagritos Saldarriaga
Interviews

“There are few of us critics in any literature”: An Interview with Christopher Domínguez Michael

  • by Christopher Domínguez Michael, Marcelo Rioseco

Writing in Movement: An Interview with Tsotsil Writer Ruperta Bautista

  • by Krishna Naranjo Zavala, Ruperta Bautista Vázquez

The Work of Art and the Glory: A Conversation about One Hundred Years of Solitude with Álvaro Santana-Acuña

  • by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Indigenous Literature

Retomada / Reclaimed

  • by Julie Dorrico

Re-Enchanting the World with Indigenous Literature

  • by Aline Ngrenhtabare Lopes Kayapó, Edson Bepkro Kayapó

Canção peregrina / The Pilgrim’s Song

  • by Graça Graúna
Translation Previews and New Releases

From The Last Twist of the Knife

  • by João Almino

From The Luminous Novel

  • by Mario Levrero

From Animals

  • by Hebe Uhart
On Translation

Language Is a Necessary Distance: An Interview with Silvina López Medin

  • by JD Pluecker, Silvina López Medin

A Conversation Between Betina González and Heather Cleary, Author and Translator of American Delirium

  • by Betina González, Heather Cleary
On Translation: Seeking Publisher

From Winter’s Fury

  • by Perla Suez
On the Essay

And This Is Regarding the Essay

  • by Mariano Picón Salas
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: May 2021

  • by LALT Team
Book Reviews

La piedra de las galaxias by Adrián Román

  • by Héctor Iván González

Urgente by Beira Lisboa

  • by Yéiber Román

No vivimos en vano / We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal, translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas

  • by Antonio Viselli

Roque Dalton: Correspondencia clandestina y otros ensayos by Horacio Castellanos Moya

  • by William Clary

Los abismos by Pilar Quintana

  • by Diego Niño

El cuerpo del silencio by María Agustina Pardini

  • by Néstor Mendoza

Confesión by Martín Kohan

  • by Gabriel Payares

Cosmonauta by Enza García Arreaza

  • by Ricardo Montiel

Catecismo salvaje/Catecismo moreninho by Wilson Alves-Bezerra, translated by Jesús Montoya

  • by Lucía Tennina

La herencia by Rafael Reyes-Ruiz

  • by Claudia M. Mejia Trujllo

La sonrisa de los hipopótamos by Juan Carlos Chirinos

  • by Claudia Cavallin

Rasgos comunes: Antología de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX by Antonio López Ortega, Miguel Gomes, and Gina Saraceni, eds.

  • by Marcelo Pellegrini

La hora gris by Eduardo Otálora Marulanda

  • by Ricardo Tello Tovar

Sub Verse Workshop / Taller Sub Verso by Giancarlo Huapaya, translated by Ilana Dann Luna

  • by Paul Guillén

Los cristales de la sal by Cristina Bendek

  • by Rodrigo Mariño-López

Reconstruction of the Father and Other Writings by Iris Kiya

  • by Kit Maude

Incurables: Relatos de dolencia y males by Oswaldo Estrada (ed.)

  • by Wilfrido H. Corral

Historias al ritmo de Chacalón by Fernando Carrasco

  • by Abraham Vargas Bautista

Crema Paraíso by Camilo Pino

  • by Hernán Vera Álvarez

Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, translated by Christina MacSweeney

  • by Gillian Esquivia-Cohen
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