Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems
From Blindness, Where You Find Yourself Homelessness No, it wasn’t the winter with an ice sword held up in its weary arm. It wasn’t the stubborn rain flooding the crops…
Literal
RESULTADOS DEL II PREMIO INTERNACIONAL LITERAL, LATIN AMERICAN VOICES
Con enorme satisfacción damos a conocer los resultados del II Premio Internacional Literal, Latin American Voices, un reconocimiento que busca destacar la excelencia literaria de quienes escriben en español desde…
El arte y lo sagrado: Visiones y revisiones
Liminar Daniel Goldin ¿Puede el arte negar la dimensión sagrada que le dio origen y que desde fines del siglo XIX no encuentra más sostén ni refugio en la religión?…
The Slightest Green: A Novel
“We inherit memory, the way we inherit the color of our eyes and skin.” —Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance“We believed that freedom was possible, despite all its demands,…
When my body ceased to be your home: IIse´s memories from Colonia Dignidad
The book When My Body Ceased to Be Your Home: Ilse’s Memories from Colonia Dignidad, by Emma Sepúlveda and translated by Denise Kripper, is a novel based on real events…
Water to Water
M Five, six—and righteous, the child in green in Gaza stands in her wrecked home, grubby, indignant. Her hands point; she explains what was done bombed, burned. It all smells…
Tu otro nombre
IV Ebria de tu venen I Soy la cuerda en la tensión extrema .............................de tu arco Soy la presa y me devoras poco a poco– ..............................indefensa te veo acercarte con…
La luz que enciende el cuerpo (Visor, 2021, premio Hermanos Argensola)
Una mujer al sol No hay nada tan rotundo como un…
Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia
Cutaneous leishmaniasis, transmitted by female sandflies, produces skin lesions of varying size and shape. In Colombia, the insect vector of the disease is native to the same forested environments that…
Nostalgia de la sombra
Para Claudia Guillén, luz entre las sombras I Nada como matar a un hombre. La frase resuena en las paredes de su cráneo y Ramiro reconoce bajo la piel un…
Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
Spanish Americas and the West Indies With the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, Black enslaved and freedwomen sold goods in the streets and markets of various urban areas in…
The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil
The Politics of Fathers In 2004, years before my friend Zezinho died of liver failure, his nephew defeated him in an election for the presidency of his village’s governing association.…