A Journal of Translation
Issue 9 Winter 2016’s collection of publications.
In a way, every person is always translating, always being carried across between meanings, images, personal experiences, sounds and subjectivity. Translation, thus, not only relates to the experience of bilingualism, or multilingualism, as much as it relates to the human …
The time is 3:14 AM, and now its 3:15 AM. Mi Cumpleaños es el quince de marzo: 3/15. I’m lying awake on my bed, though my eyes are closed by mind wanders and acts more awake than most afternoons. It’s …
Agahlo built the lighthouse in 1924 in an old city outside of a province, which has since been named too often, really, to withstand another naming here. The force of its impression has less to do with its now debilitated …
* Oil boom. Farewell, boom. The Permian basin has abruptly sinkholed a large chunk of caky earth in Wink, Texas. Gooey gold, gooey eyes. It was in 1980, says the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), when the basin, a large …
1 Nací de madre soltera, Quien iba siempre con el corazón afuera, Quien fue acusada de ser adultera, Quien tenía los ojos glaseados de cera. Amaba todo lo que no veía. Proclamaba su amor cristiano a cualquiera en sus vías. …
1 Once upon a time it was imposible to wonder. Once upon a time a city, another city, every space that’s known as a city and what they hold inside their guts. Once upon a time the tar, the concrete, …
“Red Adidas? Now tell me, who wears red Adidas? No wonder he got killed,” says the one with the pigtails. (Who makes pigtails?! Are you in kindergarten or something? She must think it’s cute, Lolita or something.) One girl looks …
The Defendants Are Found to Be Highly Intelligent* Read more »
SI/RE/NO Un subtítulo aparece mientras nado: Aquí se ve el cuerpo transgénero nadando. Desde cuando que no he visto al mar, tanto tiempo que me siento incomodo en su presencia. Somehow, coming out to the ocean (the interpersonal and geographical …
I’m not a pure man You want me alba You want me foams You want me nacre Like an amaryllis is it necessary possible does it taste good Above all, chaste With faint perfume Closed corolla have you tasted absolutely …