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“Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, bec…
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Puracé Volcano in the Colombian Massif / Courtesy of Wikipedia Quechua writer and Yanakuna poet Fredy Chikangana explores how the Yanakuna language “contributes seeds to the constructi… -
White-bellied woodstar hummingbird, Upper Las Tangáras Reserve, Colombia / Photo by Doug Greenberg / Flickr Mamaku mushgoymanta Niy shuk machula mushgoymanta: Cay kamachik cay… -
Since the Gutenberg revolution, the democratization of access to books has gradually widened the scope of representation in their pages. With that expansion, grassroots efforts have emphasized empower… -
I like this little area of my library a lot because it’s where I keep some of my horror books: H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Mariana Enríquez, Amparo Dávila, Shirley Jackson. I also like that th… -
Ghislaine Lejard, l’ombre (2020), 6.5 x 7.5 cm, torn paper glued on cardboard / Reproduced by permission of the artist I tame shadows each day I descend further into their world an… -
June 10, 2021Photo by NCinDC / Flickr He said:Why must they destroy and destroy again?Why must they forget my face my gestures my voice?Why must they believe in my absence even as I stand in front of th… -
May 15, 2017Giovanni Bellini, Pietà (1505), oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, VeniceFor more on the poetry of Pollakówna, read “A Terrible Ecstasy,” a companion essay by Alice-Catheri… -
September 13, 2016Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008For more, read “The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz,” an essay by Alice-Catherine Carls. The CircleLion fangs, bear claws… -
Antoni Tàpies, Porta metàl·lica i violí, 1956, 200 x 150 x 13 cm.Back then I learned that the painter’sgesture contains both the movement of the planetand the blade of grass on the mountain.I… -
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, the narrator recounts three near-death experiences and his journey from Morocco to France. With nods toward Dostoevsky and Genet (echoing the Lazarus scene be…
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Translator’s note: Roubaud wrote the first poem, “À cinq heures du soir” (itself a nod to Lorca’s famous “La cogida y la muerte”), about Warren Motte’s dog Lucy, who shared with her owner a g…
