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