KRISTIN DYKSTRA: WORK IN PROGRESS & UNDER CONSIDERATION

 

 

 

Detail from original book of days by Omar Pérez.
Photo K. Dykstra. Havana, 2010.

BOOK MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Breach of Trust: Translation of the 1992 book Abuso de confianza, by Angel Escobar (Cuba)

Other Letters to Milena: Translation of a mixed-genre collection by Reina María Rodríguez (with companion essay about the book; Cuba)

The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems), translation of the 2009 book by Juan Carlos Flores (Cuba)

 

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WORK IN PROGRESS

2012 Literary Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Catch and Release, a book by Reina María Rodríguez (Cuba)

Other translations underway

  • Cubanology, a book of days by Omar Pérez (Cuba)
  • La dama de Elche, poems by Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay)

Article on recent writing by Daniel Borzutzky (US)

Short videos of poets Omar Pérez and Juan Carlos Flores (Cuba)