Poetry From the January 2009 issue: Tropical Currents: Writing by Indonesian Women

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Gabriel Magaña MerloGabriel Magaña Merlo

Gabriel Magaña was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1944. He has published four books of poetry in Mexico and numerous poems in various magazines. Insumiso al rostro, a selection of poems from all of his books, will be published by the Universidad Veracruzana in 2009. His book La Nada en Bruto has been translated into French by the poet Franc Ducros and published in France as Le rien rugueux (Théétete editions). Translations of his poems have also been published in the magazine Prevue poésie littérature esthétique of the Université Paul-Valéry—MontPellier III.

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Translated from SpanishSpanish by Suzanne Jill LevineSuzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara and distinguished translator of Latin American literature, is currently general editor for Penguin Classics of a five-volume series of Borges's essays and poetry. She has received PEN awards, National Endowment grants, and a Guggenheim fellowship, among other honors; her books include the literary biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (2000; 2002) and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; to be reissued by Dalkey Archive in 2009).

Photograph: Sy Cooper

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