Contributions by Guido Herzovich
Guido Herzovich was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied literature, produced well-intentioned cultural journalism, and taught and participated in writing workshops. His novel Los salones made the rounds of the literary prize circuit without leaving much of a mark, and he co-wrote the script to Zanichi, a short feature that was screened at BAFICI. He is pursuing, with more questionable intentions, a PhD at Columbia University and is the co-editor of CríticaLatinoamericana.com (web) and El ansia (print, coming soon). Dakota Editora will be publishing his translation of Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw this year, which he birthed with cries of pleasure and pain. Since he is new to the guild (finally! a guild!), he doesn’t have translator friends to recommend just yet. He would like to translate Serge Daney’s Persévérance, but someone already has. Employing an innovative approach to translation first developed by D.F. Sarmiento, his aim is to sink his scalpel into the shifty body of poetry (http://cirujanosdewichita.wordpress.com). His blog (http://preparaciondelatesis.wordpress.com) is, without a doubt, his most cryptic work, but maybe also his most brilliant.
Bestiary
Aaron Thier
Perhaps one discovers the Aberdeen Bestiary in a moment of idleness. Perhaps while searching, as sometimes one must, for descriptions of carnal love between sailors and mermaids. Perhaps on an afternoon of driving rain, the sky rolling like surf, the palm trees tossing their heads, disoriented pelicans sailing past the windows.
How interesting, then, to learn that pelicans typically kill their young and that, having done so, they open up a gash on their own flank and let the blood run over the dead chicks, which brings them back to life. And how interesting to learn that the pelican, with its clumsy prehistoric appearance, is by no means the most peculiar of birds. The bat, for instance, is the only bird with teeth, and bees, the smallest of all birds, are twice as fertile as any … Read More »
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