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The Black Minutes is one of the Best Translated Books from last year!
The Black Minutes, translated by tu servidor y Aura Estrada, made the list of 25 books on the longlist for the 2011 Best Translated Book Award! From the press release:
See all the info here.
what is said. I
don't have
to believe it
myself.
- Herodotus
what is said
by the
Egyptians
let anyone
who finds
such things
credible make
use of them.
- Herodotus
...pero no se fueron.
- from Nox by Anne Carson
And check all the rest of the gang: Lester & Allie & Frankenstein & Mr. Luz.
The people are writing. The people are reading.
I heart winter break.
No escribo porque pienso que soy Bueno.
Rather writing for me is evidence of a necessary process.
...qué bueno que ya se fueran las lluvias...
For winter break, some friends and I are posting daily poems at this blogsite:
Which I love. I love the blog, the e-po-community and the dailyness of it. These are all drafts. These poems may disappear at some later date from the interweb or re-emerge totally new and altered and different. This is a first appearance of them. Since I will be posting manically over there until early January, I will most likely be posting a lot less here. Can I say too, I love the title of our communal blog. Is it
snow drift snow
or
snow drifts now?
You be the judge.
The Feminicide Continues
Con el rostro ovalado y la mirada firme tras los espejuelos, Marisela Escobedo me dijo que primero moriría que dejar de luchar por esclarecer el asesinato de su hija Rubí Marisol. “Es por ella, pero es por todas las hijas de las demás mujeres de México”, me dijo con la voz entrecortada, “porque al Estado mexicano hace rato que la vida de las mujeres no le importa, entonces seremos nosotras las que digamos, hasta la muerte, que sí valemos, que nuestras hijas merecen un país seguro. Yo sé quién es el asesino y no voy a quedarme callada”.
Estas fueron las últimas palabras que escuché de Marisela hace unos meses. Ayer fue asesinada, emblemáticamente, frente a las puertas del Palacio de Gobierno de Chihuahua. Sus últimas palabras fueron consignas solitarias por la justicia y la no impunidad de los feminicidios.
Más info en español de Lydia Cacho.
Info in English about one of the latest killings: from the El Paso Times.
Estas fueron las últimas palabras que escuché de Marisela hace unos meses. Ayer fue asesinada, emblemáticamente, frente a las puertas del Palacio de Gobierno de Chihuahua. Sus últimas palabras fueron consignas solitarias por la justicia y la no impunidad de los feminicidios.
Más info en español de Lydia Cacho.
Info in English about one of the latest killings: from the El Paso Times.
El hecho de escribir del lugar de donde tu eres, no implica que lo comprendas del todo y muchas veces escribes precisamente por eso, porque hay un desafío de comprensión que solo a través del trabajo con la historia se va esclareciendo hasta cierto punto.
- Juan Villoro en una entrevista en El País
- Juan Villoro en una entrevista en El País
Eso... Ceci Bastida.
Y Ana Tijoux, Gepe, Rita Indiana, La Bien Querida y Astro.
Guau.
El buen gusto.
Que me hace sonreír.
Y (según) lo mejor del año 2010.
So You Want to Write a Bad Review
Rae Armantrout today said that, in her opinion, there are only two reasons to write a negative review of a book of poetry:
1) The book or the writer has been majorly built up and praised by lots of critics and/or poetry communities in general and you want to to take said author down a notch. You want to reevaluate the author and show how perhaps they are not quite everything they are being made out to be.
2) The book or writer you are reviewing is indicative or representative of a trend or a school within poetry that you are against and want to position yourself against.
But she advised it wasn't worth it to write and publish a bad review of a book by a not-so-well known author who is not representative of some trend or school you are against. In her view, the attention given to poetry is miniscule enough that there is no reason to bash someone who might have very few other reviews or very little response to their work. If you like the work, you can review it and help to draw attention to it. If you don't like it (and it doesn't fit one of the two categories), review something else.
I think her recommendations seem smart. I also think these same guidelines would work within the translation mini-world as well. No reason to bash a translator's work, especially when said translator is low- or no-paid and who likely receives little appreciation, respect or substantive response to her work. Otherwise, bashing the translator or the poet doesn't seem worth one's time. Unless one is petty, small-minded or just cruel.
Just sayin'.
"however we seek
another's weakness is
our tyranny" Frank says
"I want to
move to
another
city" Frank said
"so long as
I don't have
to take
myself
with
me"
- C.A. Conrad in The Book of Frank
No he visto estos 10 cortometrajes de Revolución todavía, pero los voy a ver pronto (y hay de Carlos Reygadas, Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Eimbcke y Amat Escalante entre otros). Se me hizo muy interesante el ensayo de
Ignacio Sánchez Prado sobre el vaciamiento conmemorativo, sus apuntes sobre los festejos del bicentenario, lo rídiculo que es El infierno y las posibilidades del cine mexa visibles en Revolución. Dice:
¡Chécalos!