A Journal of Translation
Issue 17 Summer 2020’s collection of publications.
Image Cited: Meme source imagery of Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Fuller, Bryan and Thomas Harris, creators. Hannibal. NBC, 2013-2015. — Bias Collins is a queer, neurodivergent, transgender graduate student in the PhD in Literature program, Cultural Studies emphasis. …
A spreadsheet for desertification. An uncontrollable process processed through, Like a cliff face which just now buckled. But always unfinished! Agnes Martin The Islands, 1979 Oil and graphite on canvas 72 x 72 in. Courtesy of the Artist …
Original by Efrén Ordóñez Translated, from the Spanish, by Robin Myers His daily trip to the Depot had become the only possibility of seeing her. Every day, he’d make a wrong turn; some unrecognizable building would appear before him; …
Original by Henri Meschonnic Translated, from the French, by Don Boes and Gabriella Bedetti from Combien de noms (How Many Names) Improviste, 1999 between each word a desert inside the words the desert and with each letter I am …
Original by Maria Teresa Horta Translated, from the Portuguese, by Edite Cunhā and M.B. McLatchey I am of the condition of the verses with eagerness rescued I have a pact with the angels I recognize the trace of light …
Original by Charles Baudelaire Translated, from the French, by Will Cordeiro Often, just for kicks, bored sailors reach for that vast bird, the albatross, which glides above them on lethargic winds as each old ketch is drifting the abyss …
Dear lovely readers, I sincerely hope you are all well, and I am grateful for the investment of your time in reading our journal. What we present here to you in this issue of Alchemy may be considered a motley …