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LALT No. 20

Volume 1,

Number 20.

November,

2021

With our twentieth issue, we celebrate the close of five years of publication. The cover feature reflects on LALT’s achievements thus far and on our goals for the years to come. Other dossiers highlight Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz on the centennial of his birth, 2006 Neustadt Prize winner Claribel Alegría, Spanish-language creative writing programs, and poetry and prose in translation from Quechua.

Table of Contents

Five Years of LALT

Editor’s Note: Five Years of LALT

By Marcelo Rioseco

Five Essential Texts from Five Years of LALT

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

In Translation: A Teaching Magazine

By Denise Kripper

Dossier: Jaime Saenz

The Image of Liminal Language: Rituality and Poetry in Jaime Saenz, Juan Ramírez Ruiz, and César Dávila Andrade

By Víctor Vimos

Back to The Night: A Conversation with Forrest Gander about Jaime Saenz

By Víctor Vimos

Introduction: 100 Years of Jaime Saenz

By Jessica Freudenthal Ovando

From The Night

By Jaime Saenz

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

The Sword of Poetry

By Claribel Alegría

Knowing Claribel Alegría

By Daisy Zamora

Brazilian Literature

The Land and Time of Torto Arado

By Marcelo Cordeiro de Mello

Chronicle

Roberto Bolaño’s Caracas Speech and the Limits of Invention

By Pedro Plaza Salvati

Fiction

On Dogs and Their Fleas

By Jeanny Chapeta

Ruler of Fire

By Sylvia Iparraguirre

Helena or the Annunciation

By Carlos Martín Briceño

Poetry

An Excerpt from Cuadernos de lengua y literatura

By Mario Ortiz

Ten Poems from Lo que trae el relámpago

By Esdras Parra

Three Poems from Nombres propios

By Mercedes Alvarado

Four Poems from Venado tuerto

By Ernesto González Barnert

Essays

Clear Drunkenness

By Enrique Serna

Not a voice, but voices / not a river, but Dark Rivers, merging

By Tania Favela Bustillo

Schweblin and Strange Forces

By Maximiliano Crespi

Interviews

“They forbade us from speaking our language”: An Interview with Florentino Solano and Six Poems

By Florentino Solano

Apocalyptic Scenarios and Inner Worlds: A Conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel

By Camilo Jaramillo, Gloria Susana Esquivel

A Personal History of McOndo: An Interview with Alberto Fuguet 25 Years Since the Anthology

By Alberto Fuguet, Thomas Nulley-Valdés

Indigenous Literature

Warmipa qapariynin / Cries of a Woman

By Gloria Cáceres Vargas

Kichka uma / tankar kichka…

By Dida Aguirre García

Makiyuq Isabelamanta / Isabela the Thief

By Noemy Condori Arias

Spanish-Language Creative Writing Programs

Final Conversation: A Few Words from Diamela Eltit

By Diamela Eltit

The Master’s in Creative Writing: Writing in Community

By Federico Falco

Creative Writing is Here to Stay in Universities

By Azriel Bibliowicz

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Vice-royal-ties

By Julia Wong Kcomt

From Another Life

By Daniel Lipara

On Translation

“I had to dance!”: In Conversation with Juana Silva Puerta

By Sarah Booker

Creo que no creo: Intertextuality and Translation in Cuidados intensivos by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

Seeking Publisher: from Notes on Roadkill

By Joel Cintrón Arbasetti

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: November 2021

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Solombra by Jorge Londoño

By Diana Carolina Torres Ávila

Donde habitan las muñecas by Karla Barajas

By Juan Martins

Fanático del rock by José A. Bravo de Rueda

By Ulises Juan Zevallos Aguilar

The Animal Days by Keila Vall de la Ville, translated by Robin Myers

By Carolina Herrera

La mano suicida by María Montero

By Néstor Mendoza

Su Señoría by Santiago Espel

By Leonor Fleming

Erótica: Yarawis Aymara by Chana Mamani

By Melina Sánchez

La historia de Eva by Verónica Gallego Mengod

By Mariana Libertad Suárez

The Miracle Unfolds by Juana Rosa Pita, translated by Erin Goodman

By Emily Hunsberger


El corazón del daño by María Negroni

By Esther Peñas

Lo oscuro que hay en mí by Horacio Convertini

By Ariel Urquiza

Escritura del precipicio by Fadir Delgado Acosta

By Alberto Hernández

El hilo atroz by Beverly Pérez Rego

By Jesús Montoya

Preámbulo by Antonio López Ortega

By Gustavo Valle, Keila Vall de la Ville

Un mundo para Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

By César Ferreira

Las ilusiones by José Miguel Herbozo

By Cristhian Briceño Ángeles

El vuelo fractal de la mosca by Juan Martins

By José Ygnacio Ochoa

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