Summer 2006

Volume 28, Number 1

 

 

 

Cover Art

Jennifer Hutchinson
When I Left Mexico

 

 

Fiction

Robert Arellano
Havana Lunar (excerpt)
Marcela Fuentes
Looking for Eight
Kevin A. González
Lotería
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mami’s Mambo
Lourdes Vázquez
The Metropolis
(Translated by Jennifer Gabrielle Edwards)
Robert Lopez
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Dog Training School

 

 

Nonfiction

Liliana Valenzuela
A Mexican Invented Color T.V.
Carolina De Robertis
42 Poorly Kept Secrets About Montevideo
Pablo Medina
A Cuban Poet in New York

 

 

Poetry

Blas Falconer
Hubble’s Law
Lisa Maria Martin
Sanctuary
Gary Soto
Bean Plants
Suzanne Frischkorn
Exilio
Marco A. Domínguez
The Blue Jay
George Chacón
from that to which we run
Ray Gonzalez
After Touching The Forehead
Capricorn
Patricia Medina
10
(Translated by Scott Bailey and Rebecca Morgan)
Melanie Rivera
Bronx Bolero
Joe Boo Ledoux
The Debut of Rico—
A Dogfighting Poem
Throwing Salt
Peter Ramos
Birthday
Diana Marie Delgado
The Sea Is Farther Than Thought
In the Romantic Longhand of the Night
Martín Espada
The Face on the Envelope
The Caves of Camuy
Virgil Suárez
The Coroner’s Observance of the Mortician’s Pickled Heart
Sandy Florian
Orchestra
Juan Carlos Galeano
Leticia
Music
(Translated by James Kimbrell and Rebecca Morgan)
David Hernandez
Fear and Logic
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Penetrable
Kristina Martinez
Not Far from Another Ruined Sanctuary
Felecia Caton Garcia
El Mozote, El Savador, 1992
Kristin Naca
Not Yet
(Translated by Kristin Naca)
Richard Garcia
My Father’s Hands
Aracelis Girmay
Antinion
Helena Mesa
Braids of Water Too Swollen to Bear
Raúl Zurita
from INRI
(Translated by William Rowe)
Rafael Campo
“Elsa, Varadero, 1934″

 

 

Interview

Manuel Luis Martinez
An Interview with Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Lara Stapelton
An Interview with Jimmy Santiago Baca
Emmy Pérez
An Interview with Sheryl Luna
Alex Lemon
An Interview With Ray Gonzalez
Angie Cruz and Sheila Maldonando
A Conversation

 

 

Reviews

Mary Austin Speaker
War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón
Sarah Wyatt
Directions to the Beach of the Dead by Richard Blanco
Abdel Shakur
Chicano Chicanery ed. by Daniel Chacón
Mia Noffsinger
Locas by Jaime Hernandez
Mitchell L. H. Douglas
Pity the Drowned Horses by Sheryl Luna
Neil Perry
How Long She’ll Last In This World by María Meléndez
Vanessa Mancinelli
The Second Death of Única Aveyano by Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Robin Vogelzang
If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, a Memoir by Gregory Rabassa
Lydia Wilkes
Chicano Sketches by Mario Suárez
Jeffrey Sartain
The Skyscraper that Flew and Other Stories by Jesús Salvador Treviño
 
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