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LALT No. 4

Volume 1,

Number 4.

October,

2017

The fourth issue of LALT highlights underrepresented but deserving voices from across Latin America, with a focus on women writers as well as special sections dedicated to genre-bending science fiction, indigenous-language poetry and prose, and the essential relationship between author and translator.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: October 2017

By Marcelo Rioseco

Dossier: Five Women Writers in Translation

Five Women Writers in Translation

By George Henson

A Conversation with Jeannette L. Clariond

By Samantha Schnee

Three Poems

By Carmen Boullosa

Too Cute for Tiny Tale Tellers: Some Thoughts on Translating Series 201 with Luisa Valenzuela

By Grady C. Wray

"Eavesdropping": Snippets of a Conversation between Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney

By Jazmina Barrera

“There is no better reader than a translator”: A Conversation with Mariana Torres

By Lisa Dillman

March 10, NY

By Jeannette L. Clariond

Series 201

By Luisa Valenzuela

Tree Monster Boy Tree

By Mariana Torres

Pharos

By Jazmina Barrera

Dossier: Colombian Poetry

A Sample of Colombian Poetry

By Camila Charry Noriega

Magdalena River

By Robert Max Steenkist

From a Distance, You Can Only Ask

By Juan Afanador

The House

By Jenny Bernal

They say the last flame

By Tania Ganitsky

Eternal

By Margarita Losada Vargas

Janis Joplin

By Henry Alexander Gómez

The Snack

By Andrea Cote-Botero

Untitled

By Juan Guillermo Sánchez

I Make My Way Through the Deserted City

By Lucía Estrada

Downpour

By Alejandro Cortés González

Light and Shadow Make Up the House

By María Tabares

Perfect Unreality

By Pedro Arturo Estrada

Two Days for Lázaro

By Mery Yolanda Sánchez

Outdoors

By Amparo Osorio

Poetics

By Juan Manuel Roca

Short Fiction from Peru

Flesh for Auction

By Pedro Novoa

The Chicken Joint

By Claudia Salazar Jiménez

The Dance of the Defeated

By Gunter Silva

Fiction

A Tattoo

By Ana Clavel

Tribulations of an Anti-Plagiarism Censor

By Mario Morenza

Poetry

Three Poems

By Jorge Canese

Five Poems

By Luis Correa-Díaz

Five Poems from the Unpublished Book neverí flash*

By Josu Landa

Three Poems

By Juan Arabia

Five Poems

By Pedro Lastra

Essays

Physics and Poetry: An Introduction to Luis Correa-Díaz

By Alberto G. Rojo

A Room, a House, a City of One’s Own: Four Women Prose Writers from Latin America

By Sebastián Diez

In Memoriam: Rius for (Absolute) Beginners

By Radmila Stefkova

Against the Eviction of the Poet: An Introduction to the Poetry of Juan Arabia

By Rodrigo Arriagada-Zubieta

The Poetry of Pedro Lastra

By Marcelo Pellegrini

The Copy is the Original: The Problematics of Juan Luis Martínez’s Posthumous Works

By Scott Weintraub

Juan Ramón Jiménez, Parisian Perfumer

By Néstor Mendoza

Interviews

Symphonies of Literary Violence: A Conversation with Pedro Novoa

By Gabriel T. Saxton-Ruiz, Pedro Novoa

“Living out of place has led me towards the defeat of the real”: A Conversation with Pablo Brescia

By Pablo Brescia, Thomas Nulley-Valdés

Sarah Booker: Translation is like "Trying to Remember a Dream": A Conversation with Denise Kripper

By Denise Kripper, Sarah Booker

Indigenous Literature

“I don’t want my daughter to be ashamed to say Inché ta Mapuche”: A conversation with Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir

By Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir, Sarah Booker

Betrayal

By Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir

Two Poems

By Natalia Toledo

Two Poems

By Jaime Luis Huenún

Bogotá39

Marilia Wakes Up

By Natalia Borges

The Art of Vanishing

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Mechanical Education

By Mauro Libertella

Translation Previews and New Releases

Two Excerpts from The Diaries of Emilio Renzi

By Ricardo Piglia

Latin American Science Fiction

Did Our Women Sci-Fi Writers Dream of Android Lullabies?

By Marcelo Novoa

Cyber-proletarian

By Claudia Salazar Jiménez

The Man Who Came from Far Away

By Elkin Restrepo

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: October 2017

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Antonio Skármeta: Nuevas Lecturas by César Ferreira and Jason Jolley

By William Clary

La sinfonía de la destrucción by Pedro Novoa

By Gunter Silva

Cicatrices y estrellas by Francisco Véjar

By Thomas Harris

La troupe Samsonite by Francisco Font Acevedo

By Oscar F. Amaya Ortega

La derrota de lo real by Pablo Brescia

By Christian Elguera

Pasos Pesados by Gunter Silva

By Juan Toledo

And We Were All Alive by Olvido García Valdés

By Sharon Keefe Ugalde

Temporada de huracanes by Fernanda Melchor

By Francesco Di Bernardo

Lennon bajo el sol by José Adiak Montoya

By Tomás Emilio Arce

El último apaga la luz by Nicanor Parra

By Diego Alfaro Palma

Arboretum by Jotacé López

By Melissa Figueroa

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