Too Bright to See

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Too Bright to See is a book that plays with form as much as language. The poems are a mixture of wit, nostalgia, high school English class, and good literature. There are love poems and there are poems about everyday …

The woman in the carriage

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During the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty, a young man from the county of Wu traveled to Chang’an city …

A subway named Mobius

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In a complex and ingenious pattern, the subway had spread out from  a focus at Park Street. A shunt connected …

207th Bone: Interview with Xi Nan

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Xi Nan´s most recent project is 207th Bone, a translation of poetry by Zhou Li which is coming out October 22nd with Simi Press. I had the opportunity to speak with her about the project, Chinese poetry, and the art of translation.

Sangama

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La primera vez que leí Sangama, la gran novela de aventuras en la selva de Arturo D. Hernández, quedé perturbado para siempre …

Spermatozoa

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The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty-seven minutes …

Retablo

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The man arrived one night in a shuddering and dying 350 Ford, under an infinite, star-studded sky. It seemed like …

207th Bone

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In this poetry collection written by the Chinese poet Zhou Li (周立), the poems have no title and are only …

Challenges (I will survive)

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Without Ezequiel in Medellin, I followed whatever sparked my curiosity into new streets. At Plaza Botero I saw bronze pieces …

El Retorno

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La naturaleza, el ser y la libertad: el camino al retorno El mar y la tierra, tan amplios como el …