Stuart Cooke is a poet, translator, and critic. His latest books include the poetry collection Lyre (UWAP, 2019) and a translation of Gianni Siccardi’s The Blackbird (Vagabond, 2018). He is a senior lecturer in creative writing and literary studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
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In the following tribute, the author offers a reading of Pitol’s masterwork, El arte de la fuga. “Escape—flight—fugue,” he writes; “the polyphony of th…
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