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Poetry

The Butchers’ Reincarnation: Visions of the Nuclear Age

Reencarnación de los carniceros: Visiones de la Era Nuclear

Óscar Hahn

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…

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HAMARTIA HATCHET

Carmen Boullosa

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…

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Tipos de agua. El camino de Santiago

Anne Carson

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…

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Decreación

Anne Carson

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…

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Three Poems

TRES POEMAS

Sandra Lorenzano

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…

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CALIFORNIA APPLES

Manzanas de California

Reina María Rodríguez

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…

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You Just Don’t Talk About It

Juan Felipe Herrera

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…

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Decir otro lugar

Eva Castañeda

Coopera conmigo y aplaza todas las palabras que no digan nada. Pon sobre esta superficie las más logradas, retén tu silencio que ahora mismo estoy escarbando mi lengua para decirte…

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Tierra

Christine L. Monahan

San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala TV reporter: a black suit bites into him at the shoulders, arms and waist. Stalk of the microphone sways between the hospital bed pillow of the…

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La arena del silencio

Sandra Lorenzano

Llevo dentro de mí los desiertos, la arena caliente del silencio. Edmond Jabès 1. Tengo el recuerdo de un nombre en la punta de la lengua, por eso exploro las…

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Two Poems

Manuel Iris

English translation by Tanya Huntington Jonah The word fish wriggles its way deep into the river. And now, on my command, it bites into another fish there, in the dark.…

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Dos poemas

Luis Aguilar

pandemia pero llegó tu waterloo: y el mío: 1980: rock hudson estremece la tevé —las redes sociales eran cosa del futuro— y, como todo santo cuando se le necesita, tú…