Other people read novels but to regenerate I like to read academic articles out of immediate field. This is Silvia Goldman, “Alonso Quijano o el relativismo inmutable,” RILCE 24.2 (2008) 323-337. DQ: between the medieval and renaissance worlds, dramatizing the social transformations that occurred with the advent of print culture … “El Quijote es el … More Reading for pleasure Friday
Vision… Odor and gaze Lost from view (Without a trace) Oh fury… Scandalous life… Various lions… NOT ALREADY PUBLISHED BY US (BUT REVISIT TO MAKE SURE OF WHAT HAS AND HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED IN TRANSLATION BY OTHERS) Camino de tierra… Mundo ilustrado… El humo se disipa… Vienes en la noche… Batalla… Leve pisada… El … More Already published
…at the library, Literary Bondage and those back pages of Poets & Writers, where they list bilingual presses. There is another book that turned out to be there and that I wanted to get, and I have lost my piece of paper. C’était quoi? Something tempting and new that I was going to order from … More Ne pas oublier
For the new year (this is the Jewish new year) I had hoped for a new beginning and I got, by random chance, comments on the blocked book manuscript that wrought such havoc on my life. I confess to just having looked it up and skimmed a bit — you write well. For your conceptual … More A comment on my once and future book
I have started paying $30/year for this site, to get the ads off it, and I am going to clean it up. I will be one of the last bloggers. I have discovered this poet, Silvia Goldman, who turns out to be the author of this piece I read some time ago and liked, as … More Novedades
They will next read translation manuscripts in the summer of 2019. Axé.
We will see this film! I don’t know whether to submit these poems to The Nation or to Two Lines. I am thinking Two Lines is a good place to send this author, although they want a longer set than what I was about to send off. There are other journals: Latin American Literature Today, … More World on a Wire
I woke up thinking of a poem to write and later while folding clothes thought of another. This is unusual. I should keep them in mind and work on them when I sleep again. One is about my death row prisoner. I think of him as work and he thinks of me as love. The … More Proto-poems
…we submit to LALT, which does not accept simultaneous submissions. Submissions should be sent to the Editor in Chief at the following address: Latin American Literature Today University of Oklahoma 780 Van Vleet Oval Kaufman Hall, Room 105 Norman, OK 73019-4037 Email: lalt@ou.edu IMPORTANT: FONT SIZE AND STYLE. All documents submitted to LALT should be … More After the current plan fails
The author’s allusive style means translation has to be interpretation. While we have tried to stay as close to the words of the original as possible, we have sometimes changed them in order to keep the sense. An important part of the meaning in the poems is the rhythm, and we have tried to keep … More Translator’s note, notes for
coldhearted scientist وداد 