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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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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how to be elegant in hell
“Barriga writes from atrocity and the abyss, from unending night as he dances with his demons.” Liliana Colanzi on the work of Julio Barriga.
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Hilda Mundy, the avant-garde
“Literature, in the Dadaist gesture of the author, is a useless project that must be questioned…” Edmundo Paz Soldán pays tribute to the pioneering work of Hilda Mundy.
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i remember… (following Brainard and Perec)
“I once saw a construction worker fall from the rooftop of a two-floor house onto the street. He fell on his head and a pool of dark blood immediately started forming there. I never saw his face because he fell backwards.” By Sebastián Antezana, translated from Spanish by the editorial team of Traviesa.
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the poetry of yesterday and today in bolivia
“Thinking in terms of a golden age is complicated, because it can introduce nostalgia for a past time better than the present, and encourage the idea each period has its corresponding poet, which creates rivalries between the old and the new.” Adapted from Emma Villazón’s talk at the 20th International Feria de Libro in La Paz.
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