ROSESUNWATER x HÍKURI : A TRANSLINGUAL OS CELEBRATION
Channel: The Operating System & Liminal Lab
Date: 2021-09-10

[Originally recorded on January 24, 2021; hosted on Zoom.]

The OS & Liminal Lab are thrilled to share this very special evening featuring OS authors and translators, celebrating the release of Angel Dominguez's ROSESUNWATER as well as the recent release of José Vicente Anaya's HÍKURI, in a new translation by Joshua Pollock.

For this event, Dominguez and Pollock are joined by other brilliant OS community members, María Vasquez Valdez (KAWSAY, 2018), with her translator Margaret Randall (also the translator of Israel Dominguez's VIAJE DE REGRESO / RETURN TRIP, 2018; Chely Lima's WHAT THE WEREWOLF TOLD THEM, and Rita Valdivia's LA COMANDANTE MAYA, and Gregory Randall's TO HAVE BEEN THERE THEN, all 2017), as well as SUSURROS A MI PADRE author Erick Sáenz.

About ROSESUNWATER:
RoseSunWater is a collection of bioluminescent writing that seeks to keep memory alive in the face of colonial gentrification of the city, the peninsula, and the mind. The writing contained seeks to render the spillage of the spirit through ancestral retracings from Los Angeles to the Yucatán, from the orchard to the cenote and back to the sea. RSW is an attempt to finish a poem that Angel’s grandmother wrote, sleep-walking through time and space in search of the recuperation of ancestry, dreams, and a sense of home.

About HÍKURI:
‘Híkuri (Peyote)’ is Mexican Infrarealist José Vicente Anaya’s cult-classic poem. Influenced by his participation in a series of peyote ceremonies in his native Chihuahua, Anaya charts a transformative journey inwards, towards a psychedelic convergence of inside/outside, male/female, past/present, self/other. Incorporating Rarámuri language and traversing territory associated with ecopoetics, ethnopoetics, modernism, and infrarealism, Híkuri (Peyote) presents a utopian alternative to EuroAmerican colonial modernity—a reclamation of autonomy and poetic nomadism.

This event features translingual texts as well as original works in Spanish alongside their English translations, and is only a sampling of the incredible Spanish-English translation catalog from the OS; another incredible translingual text in this vein is Brent Armendinger's STREET GLOSS, for which we held a wonderful translingual event at Berl's in Brooklyn in the Fall of 2019.

Check out all our GLOSSARIUM:UNSILENCED TEXTS titles on our Open Access Library, for download with suggested donation and/or visit our site to purchase these works from Bookshop!

Find ROSESUNWATER at the OS's Bookshop Storefront here: https://bookshop.org/books/rosesunwater/9781946031891?aid=4259&listref=os-class-of-2021-b499115b-58f5-48b7-a219-1a2d9a5bf5fc

Find HÍKURI at the OS's Bookshop Storefront here: 
https://bookshop.org/books/hikuri/9781946031709?aid=4259&listref=os-class-of-2020