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Robin Myers

Portrait of translator Robin Myers

Contributor

Robin Myers

United States

Robin Myers is a poet and translator. Recent book-length translations include In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (Coffee House Press), Bariloche by Andrés Neuman (Open Letter Books), and Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books). The recipient of a 2023 NEA Translation Fellowship, she is currently working on a book of essays about translating poetry.

Articles by Robin Myers

A woman's hand is reflected in a mirror in this black-and-white photo

Photo by Михаил Секацкий on Unsplash

When Did You Know

By Mariana Spada

When did you know / what you / were?

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

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Emiliano Zapata on horseback, scene from the Mexican Revolution

"Emiliano Zapata on horseback, scene from the Mexican Revolution," José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913), ca. 1911. Public domain. Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930.

Unspeakable Fermentations: Putrefaction and Social Revolt in Paris and Mexico City

By Diego Rodríguez Landeros

With canine relish and human shame, I’d rather sniff than taste.

Translated from Spanish 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

A rainy window pane looks out onto a neighborhood.

Minesshubham, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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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