Summer 2024

SPECULATIVE WORLDS

ALCHEMY – journal of translation

Issue 24 – Summer 2024

 

Cover by Gian Cruz & Gisela Marcelang

Letter from the Editor by Nilufar Karimi

TEXTUAL

Antonia Pozzi

Two poems

Translated, from the Italian, by Amy Newman

Deniz Ibrahimzade, with Adriana Petkova, Melisa Gjoci, Ana Cardenas, Natalie Anashkin, Elnur Ibrahimzade, Irada Ibrahimzade, Ria Raj, Sara Moghimi

traduttore, traditore

An original autotranslation

Elif Sofya

Vein

Translated, from the Turkish, by Jeffrey Kahrs and Mete Özel

Rainer Maria Rilke

[XVII] from Sonnets to Orpheus

Adapted, after the German, by Nico Peck

Víctor Cabrera

Excerpts from WIDE SCREEN

Translated, from the Spanish, by James Richie

Eliseo Ortiz

CBP’s broken photostream

A creative translation of Customs and Border Protection’s Flickr

Reem Hazboun Taşyakan

Nile Like Holy Water

A creative translation of Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

Ahmed Abu Hazem

Scattered Spectra

Translated, from the Arabic, by Essam M. Al-Jassim

 

VISUAL & AUDIO-VISUAL

Eliseo Ortiz

Mexico | USA

An original visual artwork

Gian Cruz & Gisela Marcelang

PORTAILS, UN LEXIQUE D’UNE RÊVERIE FANTASTIQUE À LA PHILIPPINE

An original visual art series

+ A critical essay by Gian Cruz

Damariz Aguilar Aispuro

Vocero

An original visual art series

Eshitha Rao

Shifted Scenes

An original visual art work

Gian Cruz

/(séro)TROPICAL(e) CHAPITRE II: Cicatrices…/

An original visual art series