Outside: The entire dead ocean, emptying itself
Two poems from The Country of Planks / El País de Tablas by Raúl Zurita, translated by Daniel Borzutzky. Available now from Action Books
Your breath bright with presence is origin.
Three poems by Pilar Fraile Amador, translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis
A wild tiger’s excesses. Or an ocelot.
Three poems by Macario Matus translated from Zapotec into Spanish by the author, with English translations and an introduction by Wendy Call
Scan from color transparency
a failed defense against our common fate
Three poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated and with a note by Edith Grossman
On the table, to the side of the door, is my heart
An excerpt from Valerie Mejer’s “Countryless,” translated by Torin Jensen
They don’t alliterate October with gold falling from the fragile trees
Three poems by Juan Antonio González-Iglesias translated by Curtis Bauer
There is a lawless canyon in our lips, a labyrinth whose exits are burning.
Five poems from Luis García Montero’s Diary of an Accomplice, translated by Alice McAdams
Long ago I found out that you were an unfinished animal
Four poems by the Peruvian poet José Watanabe, translated from the Spanish by Carlos Llaza
I opened an ossuary and saw the bones
Excerpts from The World as Presence by Cuban writer Marcelo Morales Cintero, translated and with an introductory essay by Kristin Dykstra