I am currently translating an anthology that will introduce anglophone readers to the poetry of Javier Egea, which has yet to appear in English. Egea was part of a group of Granaíno writers who came of age in the years immediately following the death of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco and weaponised the aesthetics of Spanish lyric poetry to deliver a rigorous critique of bourgeois and nationalist ideologies.
Translation of Pere Gimferrer’s “Cosecha.” Originally appeared in Patua Letters in early 2012.
Translation of Guillermo Carnero’s “Piero della Francesca” in Decoys #1: Spectral Reveries at Impulse[b] Press, 2016.
Translation of Guillermo Carnero’s “Museo Naval de Venecia.” Originally appeared in Patua Letters in late 2011.
Translation of Yehuda Amichai’s “First Rain.” Originally appeared in Patua Letters in late 2011.
Ben Meyerson 