Translator Clare Sullivan recounts her experiences with indigenous women poets in Oaxaca, Mexico. “The women I met are custodians of culture and of memory. In their poetry, as in their stories, they combine nurturing and insight with fierceness and fire.”
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World Prose Portfolio #4: Cristina Rascón Castro
Mexican writer Cristina Rascón Castro converses with The Word, rants at the fragmented reflection of her own face, and recounts a young woman’s murder of an attacker. Sudeep Sen presents three stories co-translated by the author with Amal Chaterjee.
Recommended Spanish-Language Poetry
David Shook recommends new translations of poetry from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay, including work by skywriter Raúl Rivero, Swine Flu jokester José Eugenio Sánchez, and Roberto Juarroz, who Octavio Paz called “a poet of absolute instants.”
What Language Do You Think In When You Write?
Isthmus Zapotec poet Víctor Terán’s speech at a recent gathering of indigenous writers in that state of Southern Mexico.
A Brief Conversation with Peter Kuper
A conversation with Peter Kuper, of Spy vs. Spy fame, about his new graphic travel memoir from Oaxaca.
Heaven’s Kitchen, by David Huerta
Heaven’s Kitchen Xby David Huerta, translated from the Spanish by Jamie McKendrick Heaven’s kitchen is supplied with infernal utensils, sagging, lilac-coloured cauldrons, fat forks between whose prongs are tangled strings of archangels’ spit and frayed voices that rose from the left-hand shirt of God. A soup was being cooked when Love appeared, a rare broth [...]
Hard Time 2 Write: More Prisionero Gringo
The latest dispatch from an anonymous American prisoner in a Mexican beach town jail, sent from his contraband cell phone. This week: piñatas filled with drugs and money, the six-times-sold refrigerator, and more. Believe it or not im havin a hard time 2 write a little every day i think of something that happens. Reading, going [...]
Introducing Prisionero Gringo
Molossus is proud to introduce a new feature by an anonymous American in jail in a beach town in Mexico: Prisionero Gringo. The column will appear weekly, once received by email from our contributor’s contraband cellphone from jail. Los Angeles cartoonist Dave Meyers is illustrating an accompanying comic for each issue of the series. All [...]
Ireland, Oaxaca, and the Soundscape
The Watchful Heart: A New Generation of Irish Poets, ed. Joan McBreen (Salmon Poetry/Dufour Editions) €18/$32.95 Acclaimed anthologist and poet Joan McBreen has compiled a selection of younger Irish poets, the majority born in the sixties. Most names will be unfamiliar to even quite avid readers of poetry in America, but include Loius de Paor [...]
More Bolaño
It’s now safe to say that Bolaño has been tokenized as the new Latin American writer to love, a sort of younger, hipper García Marquez. The problem of tokenization aside, he has to his credit an extensive oeuvre of quality fiction and—though we have yet to see his best work published in English—poetry. These two [...]
My Father is dying on the face of the Sky: Female Mayan Poets
Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women, Ámbar Past, w. Xalik Guzmán Bakbolom and Xpetra Ernandos (Cinco Puntos Press) $26.95 Incantations is a surprising and necessary publication in contemporary world poetry, stunning in its execution. Jerome Rothenberg contextualizes it well: There has to my mind never been a project quite like this: a collective [...]
Reading Poems to Boston Harbor: An Interview with Translator Mark Schafer
Mark Schafer is an accomplished translator and visual artist. His latest translation to be published is a selection of David Huerta’s poems, Before Saying Any of the Great Words (Copper Canyon Press, $20).
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The Prodigal Son: A Microscript by Robert Walser
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The Literature of Justice
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Writing without Writing: On Mario Bellatin
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Beneath My Olive Tree with Lorca: Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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Three Poems from Cuba
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
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