tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen / co•im•press / 978-0988819962 / paperback / 131 pages / 2016 Reading tasks begins at its edges: a seven-part epigraph-turned-poem that brings together seven writers across different times, traditions, and languages, finding their union within the poetic I of Cuban poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and translator … [Read more...]
Poems by Lucía Estrada, translated by Olivia Lott
The poems here come from Las Hijas del Espino [Daughters of the Hawthorn], winner of the 2006 Medellín Poetry Prize. Estrada’s poetic subject travels across centuries to highlight in each poem an often overlooked woman, from Eurydice to Sylvia Plath. These lyrical portraits question the virtual absence, underrepresentation, and gendered (mis)understandings of these figures from … [Read more...]
