THREE POEMS BY IDA VITALE
English versions by Tanya Huntington Fortune For years, to have enjoyed both the error and its mending, to have been able to speak and walk freely, and existed without mutilation,…
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’68: The students, the president, and the CIA
El 68: Los estudiantes, el presidente y la CIA
English translation by Tanya Huntington The following is an excerpt from Chapter One of the book of the same title, available online through Gandhi Publica. The golden age began one…
Leonora Carrington: Cuentos mágicos
To possess a telescope without its other essential half -the microscope- seems to me a symbol of the darkest incomprehension. The task of the right eye is to peer into…
Saudades
English translation by Tanya Huntington Silver reflections on the rooftops of a city I shall never come to know, as a daughter born into a history of shipwrecks and saudades.…
Havana (An Elegy to Myself)
La Habana (Una elegía a mí misma)
A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost I came here to Havana with no song inside my heart, except…
CONVERSATION WITH THE WHITE LADY (EXCERPT)
Translation by Tanya Huntington Chance is a single word, spoken in dreams. If the same word is uttered by you and me, also in dreams yet simultaneously, it is no…
Elecciones razonadas 2018
Alberto Chimal Al contrario de otros periodos electorales, he procurado no seguir los debates, las discusiones de los candidatos en medios, etcétera. No es solamente que el discurso público esté…
Wherever I Go, It’s Always Night
A donde voy siempre es de noche
Translated by Tanya Huntington The man walked along the shoulder of the highway, hefting his backpack. Two cars passed by, and he didn't so much as look at them. Everardo…
Capers
Alcaparras
Translated by Tanya Huntington Bid farewell to her, to Alexandria who is departing –Constantine Cavafy It was better then: The sun dissolving like a sore At twelve noon As I…
A Christmas Tale
Cuento de Navidad
English translation by Tanya Huntington It had been snowing heavily for several days, but both my friends were adamant that we reach a village lost somewhere in the Alps. Our…
Un exposé del Museo Expuesto
Para mí, una de las muestras más significativas de los últimos años dentro de una ciudad repleta de museos fue Museo expuesto. La colección de arte moderno de la UNAM,…
MOVING SEASON
TIEMPO DE MUDANZAS
Translation by Tanya Huntington What remained was my vacant house, the empty space left by things that had to go in the moving van from one day to the…