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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, because it…
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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 construction of a…
White-bellied woodstar hummingbird, Upper Las Tangáras Reserve, Colombia / Photo by Doug Greenberg / Flickr Mamaku mushgoymanta Niy shuk machula mushgoymanta: Cay kamachik cay away ya…
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 them?Why m…
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…
- 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…
