TWO POEMS
Dos poemas
English versions by Tanya Huntington COMMONPLACE It is commonplace to find common places You come across them whenever you awake from a nightmare whenever you open the door and say…
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Platillos líricos
El descubrimiento del homo sapiens más antiguo conocido hasta la fecha —un ancestro de Marruecos, que rompió el récord anterior con un margen sustancial de cinco ceros— me recordó cuando…
Antes, de Mónica Maristain
"Qué culpa tiene el aire cuando todo alrededor grita" es una pregunta que formula Mónica Maristain sobre los sonidos encontrados en su más reciente poemario titulado Antes, coeditado por Literal…
Three Poems from Thresholds
Tres poemas de Umbrales
Translated by Tanya Huntington Back I feel you behind my back as I write. In a way, I carry you on my back as I write. Somehow, you are these…
UTOPIAS AND FAREWELLS
Translated by Tanya Huntington I In her well-known study, the scholar Rachel Weiss proposes that contemporary art in Cuba be understood as a voyage to and from utopia. The timeline…
Ojo-Hoja, New Artworks by Juan Iván González de León
Art serves no real purpose, or so we are told. That is why it must endeavor to be seductive. Irresistible, even. And yet there is always a distance, a disbelief…
THE FISH SUBMERGED
EL PEZ INMERSO
Translated by Tanya Huntington The fish will become absence once it is no longer named after it cannot be seen by the spider or given up for dead in one…
Apocryphal
Apócrifos
From the Apocryphal series* English versions by Tanya Huntington 8. No one can say I didn't tell you so when all else fails, no one can lodge a complaint at…
What’s In A Wall?
In a philosophical dialogue that describes our reality as something that goes on inside a cave, Plato suggested our perception is as limited as that of prisoners in chains, staring…
The Worst and the Best in Us, Beyond the Walls
Lo peor y lo mejor que somos: más allá de los muros
Translated by Tanya Huntington Netanyahu says that he did not mean to say what he said. Or that he did not mean to write what he wrote. Yet his tweet…
Los mejores libros del 2016
Diez autores compartieron con Literal las mejores lecturas que realizaron durante el 2016. Rowena Balli Una historia de zozobra y desconcierto. La recepción de las primeras escritoras profesionales en México (1867-1910)…