Cynthia Steele is professor emerita of comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her translations include Inés Arredondo, Underground Rivers and Other Stories (1996); José Emilio Pacheco, City of Memory and Other Poems (2001); and María Gudín, Open Sea (2018). They have also appeared in Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Washington SquareReview, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Review, and Agni, among others. Photo by Carolyn Cullen
Art Courtesy of Mapuche artist Eduardo Rapimán Marín
Ül of Catrileo
Matías Catrileo Quezada was killed at point-blank range on January 3, 2008, in the village of Yeupeco, commune of Vilcún...
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List of Totems in the Air
A broken wine glass, a Chinese radio,
trees looking on undaunted as I grow old,
scraps of bitter lemons,
a stairca...