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Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.

Gary Shteyngart


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Here is a poem of Bolaño's from Pájaro de calor. (It is quoted in Hiram Barrios' fabulous essay on the infra poets, Visitando al infrarrealismo.)

Teach me to dance
by Roberto Bolaño/ tr. Jeremy Osner

to draw my fingers through the cottoncandy clouds
to stretch out my legs tangled up in your legs...

(translation redacted, write me if you'd like to see it)

posted evening of Friday, November 29th, 2013
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Nada se pierde
por Jeremy Osner

Fue él que me ha enseñado a bailar
recordara años más tarde
cuando todos sus lugares de ellos de entonces
         ya tiempo no más existiesen--
La Perla de México ahora una tintorera, y el
edificio
donde viví­an
demolido, terreno baldí­o.
Todo se recupera.
No más estuviese allá
por supuesto.
Lanzara la mirada a la mesa
y recordara a los dos chingando
y se limpiase la frente.

posted morning of December 7th, 2013 by J

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