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Robin Myers

Portrait of translator Robin Myers

Contributor

Robin Myers

United States

Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. Recent book-length translations include Another Life by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books), The Science of Departures by Adalber Salas Hernández (Kenning Editions), and The Animal Days by Keila Vall de la Ville (Katakana Editores). She was among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets) and writes a monthly column on translation for Palette Poetry.

Articles by Robin Myers

An old, sepia toned photograph of a young girl

Photo by Robin Myers

Hosts and Guests

Translation, an obsessive interpretive art in which the boundaries between guest and host are tenderly and strenuously unstable, is my constant companion while I learn what it means to build a life in a country and culture different from the one I was…

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Score of Anold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night

Outside Music

By Hernán Bravo Varela

Anything audible can be remembered.

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

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The Common Good

By Sara Cordón

All she can think about is why it ever occurred to her to dress like this in public.

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

In Puget Sound

By Isabel Zapata

before their paths divided, they formed, together, three glints of light and shadow moving on at last

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

Post-Op

By Mariana Spada

somewhere in between the promise and the certainty of rain / the bounds of things / —all things, including you— / are blurred

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

Tomboy

By Claudia Masin

I don’t understand how we walk around the world / as if there were a single way for each of us

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

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