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Cover: Did You Hear about the Fighting Cat. Shearsman Books Ltd., 2010.

Omar Pérez reads five poems from his 1998 collection, ¿Oiste hablar del gato de pelea? The bilingual Spanish/English edition of this complete book was published by Shearsman Books, Ltd., in 2010.

Audio recorded in Havana, 1 June 2010, at the studio of Dennis Casteleiro.

“Otoño, mañanita”
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“Saludo de los perros”
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“Dojo”
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“Catarsis: Idea central”
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“El incienso de Bárbara”
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Running man. Journal of Omar Pérez. Photo K. Dykstra, Playa (Cuba), 2010.

November 7, 2015

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This series tracks recognitions and convergences that give rise to bodies of work in translation. Emerging out of my time spent with Cuban poetry, as well as other writings from this hemisphere, most entries address some intersection between Latin America and the United States, and/or Spanish and English within the US. Some entries center on writers and works that motivate me to continue translating. Others loop outwards to envisage other translators & their translations, and test the frames mounted around translation.

Used with permission of Anna Deeny.
Photograph by Anna Deeny, 2015

Kristin Dykstra’s translations of poetry collections by Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Angel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales are published and forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press. She previously translated other books from Cuba, including works by Rodríguez and Omar Pérez, available in bilingual editions from Factory School, Green Integer and Shearsman Books. Dykstra is completing additional books by Pérez, Morales, and the Uruguayan writer Amanda Berenguer, among others. Parallel Editions and Red Hydra Press have published and forthcoming bilingual fine arts editions with her translations of poetry by Rodríguez and Rito Ramón Aroche. With Kent Johnson, Dykstra is co-editor of Materia Prima, an anthology dedicated to Berenguer forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. She co-edited Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas / Nueva escritura de las Américas from 2004-2014 with Gabriel Bernal Granados and Roberto Tejada. Dykstra lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.