Our web companion for Chicago Review 61.3/4, Out of Alamar: The Poetry of Juan Carlos Flores, is now live! Guest editor Kristin Dykstra’s introduction is available to read in its entirety, as is “The Soliloquy of Juan Carlos Flores,” transcribed by Mayra López and translated by Dykstra, and Katherine M. Hedeen’s and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s collaboration “boquiabierto/ 33 / openmouthed/ 33.” The web companion also includes excerpts from essays by Lizabel Mónica, Marie Laure Geoffray, Marta Hernández Salván, and Hank Lazer, as well as a sample of Reina María Rodríguez’s moving elegy for Flores “Abalón / Abalone,” translated by Dykstra, and Scott Weintraub’s review of Flores’s The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems). We’re delighted to also be featuring documentary footage of Flores in poetic and musical collaboration with Hank Lazer and other poets, and an extensive photo portfolio.
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