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(Re)Drawing the Contours: A Translation of a Painting

Eponine Howarth

I recently told Nacho, the editor of Paraphrasis, that I would engage in the translation of a painting. I have long...

Wangchuan Villa: Arriving, Abiding, Parting

Quite simply put, there are writers that one feels one knows. To state that thought in yet another, more long-winded...

Covid's Metamorphoses by Maë Schwinghammer

When translating Maë Schwinghammer’s poems, I cannot help but fall into a trance-like state. Their words become my...

Rodrigo Arriagada Zubieta

The Bund by Juan Arabia: Politics in Images

The brevity is sustained at the exact point where the experience and the poetic project of the author intersect.

3. Critical Mass?

Michael Howarth

I became more and more obsessed with Mullae Dong, returning again and again to take more and more photos.

Michael Howarth

2. Another World

In this bustling city within a city which, I discovered, covered an absolutely vast area, what really struck me was...

Fragment by Bian Zhilin

Bian Zhilin was a poet and a translator of French and English literature into Chinese. He was born in Jiangsu and ...

Michael Howarth

1. Off to Mullae Dong

The description of an art village proved to be something of an exaggeration. What I did find, however, was...

"Poemínimo": Misfortunes, Poet by Efraín Huerta

An enemy of the mounted police, the petty bourgeoisie and its publicist poets, Efraín Huerta (1914-1982) devoted poems..

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