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Elisa Taber

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Elisa Taber

Elisa Taber writes and translates herself into an absent presence. An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country is her first book.

Articles by Elisa Taber

Portraits of Elisa Taber and Liliana Ancalao

Elisa Taber (left) and Liliana Ancalao (right)

Living Words: An Introduction to Five Contemporary Mapuche Texts

By Elisa Taber & Liliana Ancalao

Liliana Ancalao and Elisa Taber discuss the genocide of the Mapuche people, and how Mapuche writing both stitches together that open wound and recognizes the historical and cultural continuity of this people.

Translated from Spanish by Elisa Taber

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Void

By Miguelángel Meza

Miguelángel Meza's poetry chapbook, Dream Pattering Soles, was published this month by Ugly Duckling Presse in Elisa Taber's translation. A leading Guaraní poet, Meza was…

Translated by Elisa Taber

An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country

Elisa Taber's An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country is out today with 11:11 Press. A lyric ethnography of two Paraguayan populations—a Mennonite colony and a Nivaklé settlement—the…

Damián Cabrera on Hybrid Languages, Dust, and the Invention of Paraguay

Damián Cabrera is a Paraguayan writer, researcher, teacher, cultural manager, and curator. He is the author of the lyric novels Xirú (2012) and Xé (2019). He lives…

Translated by Elisa Taber

Ñe’ ẽ: An Introduction to Contemporary Guaraní Poetry

A real work of Amerindian literature makes perceptible another way of ordering and being in the world.

Xirú

By Damián Cabrera

Silvio wanted to escape, race across the sown fields with his long rhea legs until he reached some place where no one could see him.

Translated from Portunhol Selvagem by Elisa Taber

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