New world, new words, recent writing from the Americas
Subtitle: a bilingual anthology
By: edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Christensen ; foreword by Gregory Rabassa.
Contributors: Christensen, Thomas, 1948-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Two lines world library
Publisher: Center of the Art of Translation
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Day and night / Mónica Lavín ; tr. C. M. Mayo; title: Scardanelli speaks (excerpts) /  Francisco Hernández ; tr. Elizabeth Bell; title: Vision out of the corner of one eye / Luisa Valenzuela Hernández ; tr. Helen Lane; title: Taking over the street / Manlio Argueta ; tr. Barbara Paschke; title: The ghost of the pig / René Ariza ; tr. Michael Koch; title: Prism / Pura López Colomé. ; tr. Forrest Gander; title: Survival : eight stanzas of commentary on the words of Buddha / Mirko Lauer ; tr. John Oliver Simon; title: The light, hermano, the light / Sigfredo Ariel ; tr. John Oliver; title: Vitraux of exile / Luisa Futoransky ; tr. Jason Weiss; title: The saint / Gabriel García Márques ; tr. Elizabeth Grossman; title: The journey / Edgar Brau ; tr. Donald Yates; title: The uprooted / Christina Peri Rossi ; tr. Sean Higgins; title: A ship's passing /  Bárbara Jacobs ; tr. Susan Ouriou; title: 4. To dress a shadow ; Hopscotch (excerpts) ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar ; tr. Thomas Christensen, Gregory Rabassa and Paul Blackburn; title: A rosary for Raquel / Estela Davis ; tr. Bruce Berger; title: A Baroque cell / David Huerta ; tr. Mark Schafer / The end of madness (excerpts) / Jorge Volpi  ; tr. Suzanne Jill Levine; title: Palinuro of Mexico / Fernando del Paso ; tr. Elisabeth Plaister; title: The Wolf, the forest and the new man ; The wolf, the woods and the new man / Senel Paz ; tr. Thomas Christensen and Peter Bush; title: Three trapped tigers (exerpts) / Guillermo Cabrera Infante ; tr. Donald  Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine; title: 4. Fertile misremembrance : translating Levertov's Neruda / John Felstiner.