What a place, nothing but for some bare rocks. A stark mountain, literally.
Featured Translation
The Tree
in the pericardium
by Nadja Küchenmeister,
translated from the German by Aimee Chor
back to the core, center and crux /
a husked thing hangs from strands /
in the pericardium a span
History of a Piano in Spacetime
by Isis Aquino, Translated from the Spanish by Monica Louzon
On February 3, 1868, la señorita Margarita Vogler, daughter of a foreign merchant who lived in Santiago de los Caballeros, ran away with Ismael Pérez Soriano, a mulato who fought with the rebel soldiers in the Dominican War of Restoration. The girl was sixteen, and her disapproving father—who had prevented Ismael from courting Margarita—flew into […]
Guyu: Rain for the Crops
By Xiang Yang, translated from the Chinese by Pinyu Hwang
From between the brows of low rolling hills we have Awakened, from within the liquid gaze of the fog Awakened. It’s now the end of spring March, amidst a splendid attire of green, too Awakened. Sunlight strolls through yearning acacias Offering our peeping heads a sheer yellow And a smile. We are a people of […]
Eyes
by Humayun Ahmed, translated from the Bengali by Yeshim Iqbal
They are going to take Moti Miya’s eyes out with a date thorn tonight. During the evening prayers. Idris from Nobiganj is going to do it. He’s done it before. They are keeping Moti in Borkot Shahib’s shed. Moti’s hands and feet are tied up. Several people are standing around to guard him. This is […]
Review: Mona Kareem’s I Will Not Fold These Maps translated from the Arabic by Sara Elkamel
by Jacqueline Schaalje
Familiar tropes from Arabic poetry, the loneliness of the desert, sweetness of roses, cups of tea, the intimacy of courtyards, tears, hearts, souls, night and weeping to the moon, which can all become quickly sentimental, abound in Mona Kareem’s bilingual I Will Not Fold These Maps. But they are given a new twist because they […]
Newlyweds by Miklós Vámos
translated from the Hungarian by Ági Bori
Newlyweds Four passengers occupied the narrow, second-class coach of the train bound for Lake Balaton. A young man, a young woman, an old-age pensioner, and a middle-aged goose. They formed two pairs: the dewy-eyed newlyweds were on their way to their honeymoon, while the second pair headed to a wedding. As for the goose, he […]
Icarus by Vraiux Dorós
translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei
Don’t under any circumstances read this book, I said to myself.
And the world was created.
Review: Time Stitches by Eleni Kefala
translated from the Greek by Peter Constantine
Time Stitches starts with a shape poem:
to al
l those play
ing
hopscotch wi
thin
the gaps οf his
tory
HOMBRE NUEVO and piece of dead bird by Nicole Cecilia Delgado
translated from the Spanish by Sarah Pazen
lipsticked man
bitching bearded man
bearding bitched man
paper or latex man
boy no, man neither
