SPECIAL SECTION
Six Cuban Poets
“A young Cuban poet once told me: “We don’t have to write about the revolution; we are the revolution,” meaning he had been born into a new society in which language itself was being renovated.”
A special section curated by Margaret Randall.
featuring
Leymen Pérez 37
Yanira Marimón 37
Laura Ruiz Montes 38
Alfredo Zaldívar 38
Caridad Atencio 39
Israel Domínguez 39
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Table of Contents
Bodies in Literature
INTRO “An Introductory Note,” by Sara Wilson
POETRY “Of Places and Positions,” by Laura Ruiz Montes
POETRY “Passing by Peasant Workers,” by Yin Lichuan
FICTION “Trespassing,” by Lorenza Ronzano
ESSAY “Matisse / Odalisque / Modernity,” by Najwa Ali
POETRY Two Poems by Nausheen Eusuf
POETRY “My Flesh Is Not My Heart: A Lesson for Colonizers,” by Jim Pascual Agustin
MISCELLANEOUS “Summer Husband Gâteau with Caramel-Cream Filling: A Recipe from the Zsolt Láng Cookbook,” by Zsolt Láng
MISCELLANEOUS WEB EXCLUSIVE
Roasted Lover Thighs: A Recipe from the Zsolt Láng Cookbook
by Zsolt Láng
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Written on the Body
by Zsolt Láng
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
Doppelgänger
by Dipika Mukherjee
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Taxonomy
by Frank Paino
INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE
Phantoms as Ambassadors of Sense: A Conversation with Lorenza Ronzano
by Anne Greeott
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
Prosopopoeia (an excerpt)
by Farid Tali
POETRY
Two Poems
by Joshua Bennett
POETRY
Two Poems
by Zsuzsa Takács
Six Cuban Poets
“An Introductory Note,” by Margaret Randall
“Sunbaked Shell,” by Leymen Pérez
“When Fear Is Dream’s Excuse,” by Yanira Marimón
“Divided Equally,” by Laura Ruiz Montes
“Brief Letter from Oscar Wilde to His Lover,” by Alfredo Zaldívar
“Untitled,” by Caridad Atencio
“Nation,” by Israel Domínguez
Interviews
“A Conversation with Dunya Mikhail,” by Sobia Khan
Poetry
“Snow in Ulan Bator,” by Jiang Tao
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