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Displeasures and Felicities

Displeasures and Felicities

An excerpt from bruno darío's LANTANA OR, THE INDISSOLUBLE EXHALATION, translated from Spanish by Kit Schluter

Is the sun out anywhere on earth?

Is the sun out anywhere on earth?

A poem by Carmen Castellote, translated from Spanish by Robin Munby.

water on water that hastens and overflows

water on water that hastens and overflows

Three poems by Maricela Guerrero, translated from Spanish by Jack Rockwell

an animal twice animal

an animal twice animal

An excerpt from the book-length poem Kús by Karen Villeda, translated from Spanish by Allana Noyes

what ancestral mercy

what ancestral mercy

Pursued between the cracks of countries

Pursued between the cracks of countries

And how we violated the calm

And how we violated the calm

that which flies, flaps, beats

that which flies, flaps, beats

to measure the body or to neglect it

to measure the body or to neglect it

A wild tiger’s excesses. Or an ocelot.

A wild tiger’s excesses. Or an ocelot.

a failed defense against our common fate

a failed defense against our common fate

On the table, to the side of the door, is my heart

On the table, to the side of the door, is my heart

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