Idea Vilariño

The original Spanish text of Idea Vilariño's poem cursing a day and the forgetting it brings.

A translated Uruguayan poem cursing a day whose hours dissolve into forgetting and the passage of night.

A contributor page introducing Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño and her work translated for this issue.

A contributor page introducing translator Jesse Lee Kercheval and her work rendering Idea Vilariño into English.

The original Spanish text of Idea Vilariño's poem on a lover's body identified with the night.

A translated poem in which night becomes indistinguishable from a lover's mouth, body, and slow-invading passion.

The original Spanish text of a short poem giving simple, repeated reasons for loving someone who will die.

A brief translated poem listing plain reasons for loving someone destined to die.