The Bread of Every Shadow
Translated by Lawrence Schimel I This tendency, this grave tendency of losing oneself every time threads, lance-shaped leaves, the tenuous light of faces come undone and bodies blur like in…
Literature /literatura
Poetry /poesía
The Rain
La lluvia
For Vicente Rojo Translated by Tanya Huntington 1 Before it has even started, the rain sings. An overture of streamers, humid in the wind, announces a nubile dawn of circumflexed…
A Brief History of Music
Breve historia de la música
Translated by G. J. Racz Paxarico tu te llamas (Anonymous Sephardic Song. Sarajevo, c. 1500) The foam of the Adriatic swirls about our feet The twilight gleams red ........and…
DOS POEMAS
Danzan los jeroglíficos en la velocidad. Nadie cuida su salto. Niños ruidosos: solo tienen boca. No aceptan los preceptos de la altura. Hacen signos cabalísticos sobre el patio del mundo…
maize
maíz
Translated by Tanya Huntington maize. an acre full. pencils. a pack of twenty-four full…
The Butchers’ Reincarnation: Visions of the Nuclear Age
Reencarnación de los carniceros: Visiones de la Era Nuclear
Translated by Trans. G. J. Racz The Horsemen of the Apocalypse At twelve they’ll come by frothing at the mouth and leave their tufts of smoke before you there…
HAMARTIA HATCHET
Translated by Lawrence Schimel Losing, Losing I lost my life to the roulette wheel. It wasn’t voluntary. I’m addicted to gambling, had only that left to bet. I lost my…
Tipos de agua. El camino de Santiago
Traducción al español de Sara Cantú Pérez de Salazar St. Jean Pied de Port ..................................................................20 de junio bueno es saber que los vasos nos sirven para beber. Machado…
Decreación
Sleepchains Who can sleep when she— hundreds of miles away I feel that vast breath fan her restless decks. Cicatrice by cicatrice all the links rattle once. Here we go…
Three Poems
TRES POEMAS
SANDS OF SILENCE I carry deserts within, the warm sands of silence. Edmond Jabès 1. I hold the memory of a name on the tip of my tongue, which is…
CALIFORNIA APPLES
Manzanas de California
Translated by Kristin Dykstra A California apple costs thirty centavos. A tiny apple that arrived in our port as contraband. It fits inside a fist. (I give it to my…
You Just Don’t Talk About It
Open as the leaf as the sidewalk as the tear & the iris as the casket upon visitation as the door when the twig school opens as the tongue that…
