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LALT No. 4

Volume 1,

Number 4.

October,

2017

The fourth issue of LALT highlights underrepresented but deserving voices from across Latin America, with a focus on women writers as well as special sections dedicated to genre-bending science fiction, indigenous-language poetry and prose, and the essential relationship between author and translator.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: October 2017

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Dossier: Five Women Writers in Translation

Five Women Writers in Translation

  • by George Henson

A Conversation with Jeannette L. Clariond

  • by Jeannette L. Clariond

Three Poems

  • by Carmen Boullosa

Too Cute for Tiny Tale Tellers: Some Thoughts on Translating Series 201 with Luisa Valenzuela

  • by Grady C. Wray

"Eavesdropping": Snippets of a Conversation between Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney

  • by Jazmina Barrera

“There is no better reader than a translator”: A Conversation with Mariana Torres

  • by Lisa Dillman, Mariana Torres

March 10, NY

  • by Jeannette L. Clariond

Series 201

  • by Luisa Valenzuela

Tree Monster Boy Tree

  • by Mariana Torres

Pharos

  • by Jazmina Barrera
Dossier: Colombian Poetry

A Sample of Colombian Poetry

  • by Camila Charry Noriega

Magdalena River

  • by Robert Max Steenkist

From a Distance, You Can Only Ask

  • by Juan Afanador

The House

  • by Jenny Bernal

They say the last flame

  • by Tania Ganitsky

Eternal

  • by Margarita Losada Vargas

Janis Joplin

  • by Henry Alexander Gómez

The Snack

  • by Andrea Cote-Botero

Untitled

  • by Juan Guillermo Sánchez

I Make My Way Through the Deserted City

  • by Lucía Estrada

Downpour

  • by Alejandro Cortés González

Light and Shadow Make Up the House

  • by María Tabares

Perfect Unreality

  • by Pedro Arturo Estrada

Two Days for Lázaro

  • by Mery Yolanda Sánchez

Outdoors

  • by Amparo Osorio

Poetics

  • by Juan Manuel Roca
Short Fiction from Peru

Flesh for Auction

  • by Pedro Novoa

The Chicken Joint

  • by Claudia Salazar Jiménez

The Dance of the Defeated

  • by Gunter Silva
Fiction

A Tattoo

  • by Ana Clavel

Tribulations of an Anti-Plagiarism Censor

  • by Mario Morenza
Poetry

Three Poems

  • by Jorge Canese

Five Poems

  • by Luis Correa-Díaz

Five Poems from the Unpublished Book neverí flash*

  • by Josu Landa

Three Poems

  • by Juan Arabia

Five Poems

  • by Pedro Lastra
Essays

Physics and Poetry: An Introduction to Luis Correa-Díaz

  • by Alberto G. Rojo

A Room, a House, a City of One’s Own: Four Women Prose Writers from Latin America

  • by Sebastián Diez

In Memoriam: Rius for (Absolute) Beginners

  • by Radmila Stefkova

Against the Eviction of the Poet: An Introduction to the Poetry of Juan Arabia

  • by Rodrigo Arriagada-Zubieta

The Poetry of Pedro Lastra

  • by Marcelo Pellegrini

The Copy is the Original: The Problematics of Juan Luis Martínez’s Posthumous Works

  • by Scott Weintraub

Juan Ramón Jiménez, Parisian Perfumer

  • by Néstor Mendoza
Interviews

Symphonies of Literary Violence: A Conversation with Pedro Novoa

  • by Gabriel T. Saxton-Ruiz, Pedro Novoa

“Living out of place has led me towards the defeat of the real”: A Conversation with Pablo Brescia

  • by Pablo Brescia, Thomas Nulley-Valdés

Sarah Booker: Translation is like "Trying to Remember a Dream": A Conversation with Denise Kripper

  • by Denise Kripper, Sarah Booker
Indigenous Literature

“I don’t want my daughter to be ashamed to say Inché ta Mapuche”: A conversation with Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir

  • by Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir, Sarah Booker

Betrayal

  • by Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir

Two Poems

  • by Natalia Toledo

Two Poems

  • by Jaime Luis Huenún
Bogotá39

Marilia Wakes Up

  • by Natalia Borges

The Art of Vanishing

  • by Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Mechanical Education

  • by Mauro Libertella
Translation Previews and New Releases

Two Excerpts from The Diaries of Emilio Renzi

  • by Ricardo Piglia
Latin American Science Fiction

Did Our Women Sci-Fi Writers Dream of Android Lullabies?

  • by Marcelo Novoa

Cyber-proletarian

  • by Claudia Salazar Jiménez

The Man Who Came from Far Away

  • by Elkin Restrepo
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: October 2017

  • by LALT Team
Book Reviews

Antonio Skármeta: Nuevas Lecturas by César Ferreira and Jason Jolley

  • by William Clary

La sinfonía de la destrucción by Pedro Novoa

  • by Gunter Silva

Cicatrices y estrellas by Francisco Véjar

  • by Thomas Harris

La troupe Samsonite by Francisco Font Acevedo

  • by Oscar F. Amaya Ortega

La derrota de lo real by Pablo Brescia

  • by Christian Elguera

Pasos Pesados by Gunter Silva

  • by Juan Toledo

And We Were All Alive by Olvido García Valdés

  • by Sharon Keefe Ugalde

Temporada de huracanes by Fernanda Melchor

  • by Francesco Di Bernardo

Lennon bajo el sol by José Adiak Montoya.

  • by Tomás Emilio Arce

El último apaga la luz by Nicanor Parra

  • by Diego Alfaro Palma

Arboretum by Jotacé López

  • by Melissa Figueroa
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