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Category Archives: Books
The Armies — A Novel from Colombia
One of the great pleasures of going to the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association [ALTA] is the …
Hiroshima Joe – A Novel
Seeing the smoking wasteland of Hiroshima, particularly the blasted home and shredded family of a friend immediately after the Bomb …
Breathing
Breathing out ourselves breathing in so many others slowly, as we age, we change the pure light of her laughter …
I Had A Brother Once
I had a brother once who tried in deep woods not to walk on water. He failed and proved that …
Men In The Sun: Stories from Palestine
Men in the Sun is a slight volume of 7 short stories, the longest only 52 pages. Published in 1999 …
Away on Assignment
I’m in Philadelphia — the modern City of Brotherly Love, not the ancient one of the Roman world where Asia began. …
Liu Xiaobao Wins Nobel Peace Prize
A Small Rat in Prison for Little Xia a small rat passes through the iron bars paces back and forth …
Dunya Mikhail – Iraqi Poet in Exile
Dunya Mikhail is a remarkable Iraqi poet now working her craft in Michigan. Her poem “War Works Hard” is just …
Poets:The Far Flung Word
I can’t say how really amazing it is to be at the GRD Poetry Festival in Newark, to see poets …
Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa was not in the final list compiled by would-be Nobel Prize seers. A British betting firm had …
The Republic of Poetry
by Martin Espada For Chile In the republic of poetry, a train full of poets rolls south in the rain …