Out of Alamar: The Poetry of Juan Carlos Flores—

Kristin Dykstra, Guest Editor, Introduction: Gravity and Weightlessness

Mayra López, translated by Kristin Dykstra, El soliloquio de Juan Carlos Flores / The Soliloquy of Juan Carlos Flores

Lizabel Mónica, Alamar’s Last Poet

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez & Katherine M. Hedeen, boquiabierto/ 33 / openmouthed/ 33

Marie Laure Geoffray, Juan Carlos Flores, Omni-Zona Franca, and the Reinvention of Alamar

Reina María Rodríguez, translated by Kristin Dykstra, Abalón / Abalone

Marta Hernández Salván, Language Adrift: The Poetics of Juan Carlos Flores

Hank Lazer, Three Meetings with Juan Carlos Flores

Photo Portfolio

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Fiction—

Pilar Fraile Amador, translated by Heather D. Davis, End of the World

Carla Faesler, translated by Adam Greenberg, Formaldehyde

Poetry—

Birhan Keskin, translated by Buğra Giritlioğlu, Fotoğraf / Photograph; Flamingo I / Flamingo I; Dağ / Mountain

Denise Newman, from The Redesignation of Paradise

Robert Majzels, introduced by Erín Moure, “small fry” – Four Poems from kHarLaMoV’s aNkLe

Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call, from Stolen Flower / (Guie’ Ni Zinebe ~ La Flor Que Se Llevó)

Daniel BorzutzkyAquafina

Stephanie StricklandHello Dear I Need Your Urgently Reply; Moral ( Mortal ) Maxims

Andrew Spragg#; Postponements; One Over; To Fetch Up Further Than Intended

Rosa AlcaláYou in Cut-offs; You, a Hand, Another; You, the Bourgeoisie; You & the Banker

Sara NicholsonNo Body; Vertical Suite; Arbor Vitae; Waking Up Sir Philip Sidney of Kent, Husband of Frances and Brother of Mary, Author of the Arcadia, a Romance in Five Acts

José Asunción Silva, translated by Robert Fernandez, Futuro / Future; Mariposas / Mariposas; Viejo Rosal / Old Rosebush; Realidad / Reality

Reviews—

Scott Weintraub on Juan Carlos Flores; Jean-Thomas Tremblay on Renee Gladman; Zane Koss on Ben Hickman; Abhishek Bhattacharyya on A. James McAdams; Christopher Spaide on Karin Roffman’s Ashbery bio; Sam Buchan-Watts on Robert Sheppard; Christopher Kempf on Philip Levine; Kirsten Ihns on Sandra Simonds

Notes and Comments—

Editorial Statement on Liliane Giraudon’s poems and Amandine André’s introductory essay cotranslated by Jeff Nagy and Lindsay Turner

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