Dossier: Five Women Writers in Translation
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Coincidentally, but fortuitously, all the writers chosen for this dossier are women, Jazmina Barrera (Mexico), Carmen Boullosa (Mexico), Jeannette Clariond (Mexico), Mariana Torres (Brazil), and Luisa... -
Light is never a metaphor I read from Charles Wright. I feel that we should learn how "to listen" to silence. And, yes, Charles Wright is a gnostic poet. Reality is revealed to us with no intermediari... -
We are hatchets of steel and fire. / We live to reap and illuminate. / With the metal, / we fell the trunk. / With the flame, / we illuminate the cut, / the felling of what we are. -
When I first read Valenzuela’s series I did not notice any major difficulties that I would confront when translating, but as always, certain obstacles were waiting between the words and between the la... -
… I’ve always associated freedom with essays. Essays are a way for me to explore, to try things out, to create without restrictions or even expectations (an essay is by definition unfinished, imperfec... -
"There is always an explanation, of course, but when you’re writing you never think on that level of detail. It’s an experience of understanding, and it’s very enriching." -
White silence, absent birds. / Treetops blowing in the clouds / wound the landscape’s rhythm. -
At the meeting of the strange Sect of Flash Fiction Writers, we listened to each other with enough suspension of disbelief—to use the curious quote from Coleridge—but also with the necessary contact w... -
That’s all he said, all the explanation he gave us. He shook his head, happy to be able to wave his branches openly. We were so shocked we must even have stopped breathing. Some of us vomited. The oth... -
Yaquina Head Lighthouse. Brick tower painted white, 93 feet high. Original Fresnel lens, visible at 18.5 nautical miles. Blink pattern, two seconds on, two seconds off, two seconds on, fourteen second...
