G.J. Racz is professor of English, Philosophy, and Languages at LIU Brooklyn, review editor for Translation Review, and a former president of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).  His most recent translations of Latin American poetry appeared last year in the bilingual volumes The Butchers’ Reincarnation by Chilean author Óscar Hahn (Dos Madres Press) and A Brief History of Music & “Fourteen Forms of Melancholy” (Diálogos Books) by Peruvian author Eduardo Chirinos.