Articles tagged "Urbanisation"

Old Man with Garden at the Rear End of Time (Mag: Articles)

By Mia Couto | December 4, 2007

In the Dona Berta garden, there's a bench. The only one left. All the others have been torn up, turned into loose planks bound for firewood. On this last remaining bench there lives an old man. Every…...

Translated from Portuguese by David Brookshaw

My City’s Ceiling Is Too Tight (Mag: Articles)

By Hala Shurouf | October 31, 2006

I am now overflowing beyond my name, beyond my body and going out of my details to the pain of place while my heart is as cool as a cloud, a lonely female. As for my hands, they protect my heart from an…...

Translated from Arabic by Issa J. Boullata

Dreams and Memories of a Common Man (Mag: Articles)

By Marcos Matías Alonso | September 28, 2005

Note: This piece was originally written in Náhuatl. Over there, in "The Disenchantment," it was said about the great city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan that, in addition to its beauty, one earns a lot…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

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