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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| An Introduction to mestizo Poetics | |
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| An Historical Introduction to Latin American Poetry | |
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| Anonymous Maya Codex (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous And All Was Destroyed (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous Codex Cantares Mexicanos (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous The Florentine Codex (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous Inca Quipu | |
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| Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Beautiful Maiden | |
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| Anonymous Popol Vuh (excerpt) | |
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| Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga The Araucaniad (excerpt) | |
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| Mateo Rosas de Oquendo | |
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| The Mestizo's Ballade | |
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| Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Cachiuia | |
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| Festival of the Inca | |
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| Principal Accountant and Treasurer | |
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| Gregorio de Matos Define Your Cityave Cloth | |
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| An Anatomy of the Ailments Suffered by the Body of the Republic, In All Its Members, and Complete Definition of What Has Ever Been the City of Bahia | |
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| To The City of Bahia Laying His Eyes First Upon His City He Sees That Its Merchants Are The Primary Cause of Its Ruin, Because It Longs After Useless and Deceitful Goods | |
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| To The Palefaces of Bahia Upon Finding An Arm Taken from the Statue of the Christ Child of Our Lady of the Wonders, Which Was Profaned by Unbelievers at the See of Bahia | |
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| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz First Dream (excerpt) | |
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| This coloured counterfeit that thou beholdest | |
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| Tarry, shadow of my scornful treasure | |
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| Diuternal infirmity of hope | |
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| Villancico VIII (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous The Book of Chilam Balam of Mani (excerpt) | |
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| Anonymous Grant Don Juan V Life | |
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| Eight-Line Acrostic | |
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| Simon Rodriguez Social Virtues and Illuminations | |
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| Anonymous Atahualpa Death Prayer | |
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| Bartolome Hidalgo New Patriotic Dialogue | |
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| Francisco Acuna de Figueroa To the Most Holy Virgin Mary | |
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| Multiform Salve (excerpt) | |
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| Alphabetical-Numerical Prophecy | |
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| Hilario Ascasubi The Slippery One | |
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| Antonio Goncalves Dias Song of Exile | |
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| Manuel Antonio Alvares de Azevedo Intimate Ideas (excerpt) | |
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| Sousandrade Wall Street Inferno | |
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| Jose Hernandez Martin Fierro (excerpt) | |
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| Antonio de Castro Alves The Slave Ship (Tragedy on the Sea) (excerpt) | |
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| Rosa Araneda Cueca of the Lady Conductors | |
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| Jose Marti Waking Dream | |
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| Love in the City | |
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| Joao da Cruz e Sousa lesbian | |
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| Afra | |
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| Jose Asuncion Silva Ars | |
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| Olavo Bilac Portuguese Language | |
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| Ruben Dario Love Your Rhythm | |
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| The Wandering Song | |
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| EHEU! | |
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| Nocturne | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| The Optimist's Salutation | |
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| Jose Juan Tablada Three Haikus: Willow, Cherimoya Tree, Bug | |
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| Ideogram Latern (excerpt) | |
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| Havana Impressions | |
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| Jose Maria Eguren The Lady I | |
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| The Towers | |
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| Favila | |
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| Joaquin Torres Garcia America Invertida | |
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| City With No Name (excerpt) | |
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| Julio Herrera y Reissig Lunatic Tertulia | |
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| Augusto dos Anjos A Philosopher's Agony | |
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| Modern Buddhism | |
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| Pedro Kilkerry It's the Silence | |
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| Mare Vitae | |
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| Delmira Agustini To Eros | |
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| The Ineffable | |
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| The Intruder | |
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| Manuel Bandeira Anthology | |
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| Green-Black | |
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| My Last Poem | |
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| Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva Emotion and Advantage of Proven Depth | |
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| All Morning the Wind Has Spoken | |
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| Alejandro Xul Solar | |
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| ""This Hades Is Fluid"" (excerpt) | |
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| Gabriela Mistral Drops of Gall | |
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| Airflower | |
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| A Word | |
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| The Other Woman | |
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| Oswald de Andrade Brazilwood (excerpt) | |
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| Cannibal Manifesto (excerpt) | |
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| Oliverio Girondo The Mix | |
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| My Lumy | |
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| Totem Night | |
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| You Have to Look For It | |
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| Votive Offering | |
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| Cesar Vallejo | |
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| The Black Heralds | |
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| Trilce (excerpt) | |
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| Black Stone on a White Stone | |
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| Telluric and Magnetic | |
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| I stayed on to warm up the ink in which I drown | |
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| There are days, there comes to me an exuberant, political hunger | |
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| Alfonsina Storni World of Seven Wells | |
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| An Ear | |
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| Vicente Huidobro Minuit | |
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| Piano | |
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| Canto I (excerpt) | |
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| Non Serviam | |
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| Mario de Andrade Inspiration | |
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| Nocturne | |
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| A Very Interesting Preface (excerpt) | |
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| Pablo de Rokha Song of the Old Male (excerpt) | |
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| Maria Sabina Life (excerpt) | |
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| Juan L. Ortiz Village On The River | |
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| Why? | |
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| Gamaliel Churata Khirkhilas (excerpt) | |
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| Raul Bopp Cobra Norato (excerpt) | |
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| Luis Pales Matos Prelude in Boricua | |
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| Black Dance | |
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| Jorge Luis Borges The Golem | |
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| The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires | |
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| Borges and I | |
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| Limits | |
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| Rosamel Del Valle Canticle IX | |
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| Magic Love | |
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| Cecilia Meireles Pyrargyrite Metal, 9 | |
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| Song | |
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| Speech | |
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| Second Rose Motif | |
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| Jose Gorostiza Death without End (excerpt) | |
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| Elegy | |
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| Pauses I | |
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| Carlos Drummond de Andrade This Is That | |
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| Passion for Measure | |
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| In the Middle of the Way F | |
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| Nicolas Guillen Sensemaya | |
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| Son Number 6 | |
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| My Last Name I, a family elegy | |
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| Xavier Villaurrutia L. A. Nocturne: The Angels | |
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| Nocturne: Fear | |
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| Cesar Moro To Wait | |
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| Trafalgar Square | |
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| Pablo Neruda Melancholy Inside Families | |
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| Walking Around | |
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| Right, comrade, it's the hour of the garden | |
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| Aurelio Arturo Climate | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| Omar Caceres Mansion of Foam | |
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| Deserted Blue | |
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| The I's Illumination | |
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| Visitor Extremes | |
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| Martin Adan | |
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| Aloysius Acker is coming into the world | |
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| Without Time Signature, Hurrying Ad Lib/Played Freely, etc | |
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| Jose Lezama Lima | |
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| Thoughts On Havana (excerpt) | |
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| Fifes, Epiphany, Goats | |
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| Death of Time | |
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| Enrique Molina | |
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| The Way It Must Be | |
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| Hue | |
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| Aquatic Rite | |
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| Pablo Antonio Cuadra | |
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| God Creates the Andes | |
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| The Myth of the Jaguar | |
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| Octavio Paz | |
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| Sunstone (excerpt) | |
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| Here | |
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| Exclamation | |
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| Altar | |
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| Joaquin Pasos Warsong of the Things (excerpt) | |
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| Nicanor Parra No President's Statue Escapes | |
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| 1973 | |
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| U.S.A | |
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| The Individual's Soliloquy | |
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| Dumb, Sad, and Thoughtful | |
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| Goddamn the Empty Sky | |
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| Gonzalo Rojas | |
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| You Shouldn't Copy Pound | |
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| Qedeshim Qedeshoth | |
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| Cesar Davila Andrade | |
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| Bulletin and Elegy of Indian Enslavement (excerpt) | |
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| Joao Cabral do Melo Neto | |
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| Education by Stone | |
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| Tale of an Architect | |
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| The Unconfessing Artist | |
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| A Knife All Blade | |
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| Olga Orozco | |
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| Variations on Time | |
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| The Obstacle | |
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| Idea Vilarino Metamorphosis | |
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| Poor World | |
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| A Guest | |
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| I did not love you | |
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| Jaime Saenz Anniversary of a Vision (excerpt) | |
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| Juan Sanchez Pelaez From the Fleeting and Permanent (excerpt) | |
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| Dark Bond | |
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| Jorge Eduardo Eielson Maria's First Death | |
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| Paracas Pyramid Performance, 1974 | |
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| Quipu, l965 | |
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| Carlos Martinez Rivas | |
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| Two Murals: U. S. A. (excerpt) | |
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| Gyula Kosice | |
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| Portable Madi Dictionary (excerpt) | |
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| MADI | |
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| Ernesto Cardenal | |
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| Death of Thomas Merton (excerpt) | |
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| Rosario Castellanos Livid Light | |
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| Silence Around An Ancient Stone | |
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| Malinche | |
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| Apolonio Alves dos Santos | |
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| Antonio Conselheiro and the Canudos Rebellion | |
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| Blanca Varela | |
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| I bury my hand in the sand | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Final Scene | |
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| Family Secret | |
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| Curriculum Vitae | |
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| Decio Pignatari hear the earth | |
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| drink coca cola | |
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| Carlos German Belli Tortilla | |
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| Sestina of Mea Culpa | |
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| I trust now in nothing | |
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| Francisco Madariaga Black Cola Jara | |
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| The Trivial Jungle | |
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| Leonidas Lamborghini | |
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| The Displaced Applicant (excerpt) | |
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| Eva Peron at the Stake (excerpt) | |
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| amereida amereida (excerpt) | |
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| Edgardo-Antonio Vigo object-poems | |
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| Enrique Lihn | |
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| The Father's Monologue with His Infant Son | |
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| Those Who Are Going To Die Can't Wait | |
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| Haroldo de Campos | |
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| The Ear's Pavillion | |
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| Born and Dies | |
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| Galaxias (excerpt) | |
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| Juan Gelman | |
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| CDLVI | |
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| CDLXXXI | |
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| XDV | |
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| Augusto de Campos eggtangle | |
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| Eye for an Eye | |
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| To Put On A Mask | |
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| Jaime Jaramillo Escobar | |
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| The Leather Telegram | |
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| Lorenzo Ramos | |
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| The Foreigners Lie About What They Want | |
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| Antonio Martinez | |
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| The Words of Pa'i Antonio | |
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| Aurelio Frez | |
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| Mother, here we are | |
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| Alfredo Silva Estrada | |
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| Grape Harvests | |
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| The Dwellers (excerpt) | |
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| Gerardo Deniz Meditate | |
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| The authoritarian school and how a respectable literary genre was born | |
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| Threat | |
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| Romulus Augustulus | |
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| Sexologic | |
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| Isabel Fraire | |
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| A Moment Captured by a Japanese Painter of the 18th Century Seen in a Moment of the 20th Century in a London Gallery | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Housing Complex | |
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| Sergio Mondragon | |
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| Exodus of the Gods (excerpt) | |
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| Susana Thenon | |
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| Poem With Simultaneous Translation Spanish-Spanish | |
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| Nuptial Song | |
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| Roque Dalton | |
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| No, I Wasn't Always This Ugly | |
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| The Country - Sir Thomas | |
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| Toadstools VIII | |
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| Alejandra Pizarnik | |
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| Nocturnal Singer | |
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| From the Other Side | |
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| From a Copy of ""Les Chants de Maldoror"" | |
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| Fiesta | |
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| Useless Frontiers | |
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| Oscar Hahn | |
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| Restriction of Nocturnal Movements | |
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| Conjurer's Tract | |
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| Vision of Hiroshima | |
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| Eugenio Montejo | |
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| The World's Practice | |
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| A Bird's Earthness | |
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| Good-bye to the 20th Century | |
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| Osvaldo Lamborghini | |
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| The Most Amusing Song of the Devil (a prose work half in verse, no joke) (excerpt) | |
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| Jose Kozer | |
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| A Meeting at Cho-Fu-Sa | |
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| Kafka Reborn | |
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| Rodolfo Hinostroza | |
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| Contra Natura (excerpt) | |
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| Antonio Cisneros | |
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| The Dead Conquerors | |
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| Poem on Jonah and the Disalienated | |
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| Appendix to the Poem on Jonah and the Disalienated | |
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| Juan Luis Martinez | |
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| Remarks Concerning the Exuberant Activity of ""Phonetic Confabulation""or ""The Language of Birds"" in Works by Jean-Pierre Brisset, Raymond Roussel, Marcel Duchamp, and Others | |
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| Breathing House, Almost the (Author's) Little House | |
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| Ear | |
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| The New Novel: The Poet as Superman | |
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| The Structure of Political Thought | |
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| Gloria Gervitz | |
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| Migrations (excerpt) | |
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| Soledad Farina | |
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| Everything Calm, Immobile | |
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| Which To Paint Which First | |
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| Not Time Yet | |
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| Where The Yellow | |
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| Paulo Leminski | |
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| Catatau (excerpt) | |
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| Metamorphosis (excerpt) | |
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| Maria Mercedes Carranza Homeland | |
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| Heels Over Head with Life | |
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| I'm Afraid | |
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| Canto 17: Cumbal | |
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| Canto 18: Soacha | |
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| Canto 3: Dabeiba | |
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| Arturo Carrera | |
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| It Wasn't in Sicily, It Wasn't Here (excerpt) | |
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| Cecilia Vicuna | |
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| Physical Portrait | |
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| con-con | |
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| Quipu de Londres | |
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| Instan (excerpt) | |
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| Wilson Bueno | |
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| Mar Paraguayo (excerpt) | |
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| Nestor Perlongher Tuyu | |
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| Mme Schoklender | |
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| Daisy Zamora | |
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| Radio Sandino (excerpt) | |
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| Raul Zurita Inri (excerpt) | |
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| Desert Writing | |
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| Sky Writing | |
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| Coral Bracho | |
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| Water of Jellyfish | |
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| Its dark force curving | |
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| Give me, earth, your night | |
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| Elvira Hernandez | |
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| The Flag of Chile (excerpt) | |
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| Reina Maria Rodriguez | |
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| Twilight's Idol | |
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| Emeterrio Cerro | |
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| Miss Murkiness (excerpt) | |
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| Jorge Santiago Perednik | |
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| Shock of the Lenders (excerpt) | |
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| Humbert Ak'abal Stones | |
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| Advice | |
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| Effort | |
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| Navel | |
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| Fireflies | |
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| Walker | |
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| Learning | |
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| Buzzard | |
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| Elikura Chihuailaf | |
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| I Still Want To Dream In This Valley | |
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| For I Am The Power Of The Nameless | |
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| Myriam Moscona | |
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| Black Ivory (excerpt) | |
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| Josely Vianna Baptista | |
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| A Sound of Ancient, Faded Flows | |
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| Traces | |
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| The Grail | |
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| Xunka' Utz'utz' Ni' | |
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| Prayer So My Man Won't Have to Cross The Line | |
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| Loxa Jimenes Lopes | |
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| Pexi Kola Magic | |
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| Maria Ernandes Kokov | |
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| The Talking Box Speaks | |
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| Tonik Nibak | |
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| Dance of the Perfumed Woman | |
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| Cristina Rivera-Garza | |
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| Third World (excerpt) | |
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| Juan Gregorio Regino Cantares | |
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| List of Translators | |
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| Source Notes | |