Translated from the Spanish by Mar'a Jos??? Gim???nez. "Words rarely fail us. Rather, it's often the other way around. A poem like Mara Pastor's "Man" reminds me of how much we undercut and burden them with the task of unidirectional sense-making. It lodges in my mind-parasitic, tapeworm-like-for its odd humor, unsettling ambiguity, and refusal to budge. The Busts of Mart' is a comedic take on polyvocality. Mar'a Jos??? Gim???nez's translations capture the quirks of Pastor's playful sensibility, and what ensues is ...
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Translated from the Spanish by Mar'a Jos??? Gim???nez. "Words rarely fail us. Rather, it's often the other way around. A poem like Mara Pastor's "Man" reminds me of how much we undercut and burden them with the task of unidirectional sense-making. It lodges in my mind-parasitic, tapeworm-like-for its odd humor, unsettling ambiguity, and refusal to budge. The Busts of Mart' is a comedic take on polyvocality. Mar'a Jos??? Gim???nez's translations capture the quirks of Pastor's playful sensibility, and what ensues is buoyancy."--M--nica de la Torre Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies.
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