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"Thank Goodness They're Not Here": Three Poems by Cristina Rivera Garza

April 2024

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In this set of three long poems, Cristina Rivera Garza explores mental illness, decay, and the specificity of place.

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Thank Goodness They’re Not Here

By Cristina Rivera Garza

Here there could be room for a light that I haven’t seen again and I can’t / describe and therefore remember.

Translated from Spanish by Ilana Luna & Cheyla Samuelson

Red ants crawling over gray rocks

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The Geology of the Place

By Cristina Rivera Garza

Thus the before was born and thus born the after.

Translated from Spanish by Ilana Luna & Cheyla Samuelson

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The Symptomatology of the Place

By Cristina Rivera Garza

They speak to the trees in the language / of trees and to the grass in the language of grass

Translated from Spanish by Ilana Luna & Cheyla Samuelson