Lo que les dijo el licántropoWhat the werewolf told them by Chely Lima and translated by Margaret Randall

This is poetry from Cuba.

Lo que les dijo el licántropoWhat the werewolf told them by Chely Lima translated by Margaret Randall is published by The Operating System. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946031044E12.

Chely Lima’s Lo que les dijo el licántropo / What the werewolf told them, translated by Margaret Randall, is a Cuban entry that immediately opens toward fable, monstrosity, gender, and speech from the edge of the human. A werewolf is a creature of transformation, secrecy, appetite, and social fear. To ask what the werewolf told them is to ask what knowledge lives in the body that has been marked as monstrous. Randall’s translation likely helps carry the book’s strangeness without domesticating it. Published by The Operating System, this is exactly the kind of row that keeps the library from becoming too tidy. It belongs as a work of queer, mythic, creaturely imagination.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.