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Elisa Taber

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Elisa Taber

Elisa Taber is a PhD candidate at McGill University. Her writing and translations are troubled into being, even when that trouble is a kind of joy. An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country is her first book.

Articles by Elisa Taber

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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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