caligula
“It’s the hour you hate most,/ when afternoon falls/ as if collapsed from the roof…” By Óscar Cerruto, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira
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twenty-seven of us
“The night bled/ like the vibrant blade of a sharp dagger/ and we were in the smoke of fantastic fires/ the terrifying vision of an infernal mind…” By Raúl Otero Reiche, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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underground population
“I want to die beneath the earth/ in eternal dialogue with the salts, my hair roots/ my words clay…” By Edmundo Camargo, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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vote of silence
“Forgive me,/ I think they have changed me in making me more a man…” By Pedro Shimose, translated from Spanish by Michael Sisson.
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postmodern ballad
“I write you this poem/ as a protest/ of love that refuses/ to consent to indifference.” By Eduardo Mitre, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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for a mythology of minor things
“Like one who wrinkles an old shirt/ &/ Goes about naked in the old cinemas/ Death/ Walks with crutches…” By Humberto Quino, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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to a dinner guest
“In her gaze, shy heaven, there appeared divorce,/ exhausted sweetness, pleasure that despairs.” By Juan Cristobál Maclean, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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the city
“City of labyrinths,/ I listen to you:/ alone in the depths…” By Blanca Wiethüchter, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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pop and purgatory: lives of the poets (and translators)
“he is said to have stolen a corpse’s limb from the morgue, and to have brought a panther home to his wife on their wedding day…”
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a book
“Late at night, silent, the consciousness of his work surprised him…” By Jesús Urzagasti, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira
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