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Ecuador

Portraits of Mónica Ojeda and Sarah Booker

The National Book Award Interviews: Mónica Ojeda & Sarah Booker

By Words Without Borders

“I always say to myself that Jawbone came to me as a nightmare, a vision full of fear and desire, but I really can’t remember how it started.”

A Landscape of Claws

By Mónica Ojeda

That’s how it felt to sleep handcuffed to a table.

Translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker

Pegasus Autopsy

By Julio Pazos Barrera

Soon the volunteers will arrive

Translated from Spanish by Bryan Mendoza

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A Note from Contest Judge David Tomas Martinez

It was an Hunahpúan effort to choose only four poems from this extraordinarily strong pool of poems.

Oyacachi

By Ulises Estrella

The uncertainty spread: / who will watch over those without eyes? / ears?

Translated from Spanish by David Backer

El Terrible

By Ulises Estrella

Life is postponed defeat / victory is death by an authentic hand.

Translated from Spanish by David Backer

Pedestrian of Quito

By Ulises Estrella

Impossible to live with dead citizens / noosed to the floor of a stage

Translated from Spanish by David Backer

Beings with Cruel Faces

By Francisco Proaño Arandi

I can't stop thinking about them, Doctor, I said.

Translated from Spanish by Harry Morales

The Reticent Suicide

By Santiago Páez

Well, speed up, goddamn it! he said, while he looked at the roadway very excitedly and in a panic, can't you see that the commissioner is waiting for me?

Translated from Spanish by Harry Morales