These are poems of highways & flowers, krakens & magnolias, skulls & meteorites. “I am what my body does not allow me to be,” the poet says, or said in Spanish, with a subsequent, parallel song proferred by the translator. These poems translate a country into a series of koans and aquatic musical possibilities, into a house made of pages. These poems are working through the damaged configuration of the world, its fragments and splinters, wondering if justice might still be possible at all
Ilana Dann Luna (Pennsylvania, 1978), académica, investigadora, escritora, traductora y cantante. Cuenta con un doctorado Lenguas y Literatura Hispánicas de la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara, con énfasis adicional en traducción literaria (2011). Profesora titular de Literatura y Estudios latinoamericanos en Arizona State University (ASU) donde imparte clases de literatura en español, cine y estudios culturales. Co-directora de programación del Femme Revolution Film Fest en la Ciudad de México desde 2017, y ...