Nightboat
23/08/2018
They will next read translation manuscripts in the summer of 2019. Axé.
Category: Poetry
World on a Wire
07/08/2018
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
Proto-poems
07/08/2018
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
After the current plan fails
01/08/2018
…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
Translator’s note, notes for
17/07/2018
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
Of interest
17/07/2018
Diglossia: Vallejo and Verlaine Ballón Aguirre’s curious text Axé.
Sobre la poesía
10/07/2018
This was a poem I wrote in 1981, that I liked then and still do, but that needs context to be comprehensible. At what point do poems expire, speaking only to their own age? At what point does a text that interests its writer become interesting to another? I never thought of this level of … More Sobre la poesía
Presses
10/07/2018
Two Lines. Print journal, online features, and also books. Center for the Art of Translation. Study this journal; here are submission instructions. Tripwire. Experimental. They take translations but not poems originally written in English. Verify? Split Lip. You can submit one poem only. This is fun, if you only have one good one. Siete vientos, … More Presses
Notes on that poem
10/07/2018
…that I spent days translating when I should have been doing any number of things. The post-human. The critique of nationalist literary histories. The attempt to locate origins in what has been lost. The fact that that is the game nationalist literary histories play, appropriating those origins for the national project. We are taught to … More Notes on that poem
Fernando de Herrera, Soneto X
04/07/2018
Roxo sol, que con hacha luminosa coloras el purpúreo y alto cielo, ¿hallaste tal belleza en todo el suelo, qu’ iguale a mi serena Luz dichosa? Aura suäve, blanda y amorosa, que nos halagas con tu fresco buelo; cuando se cubre del dorado velo mi Luz, ¿tocaste trença más hermosa? Luna, onor de la noche, … More Fernando de Herrera, Soneto X
