Tag Archives: Spanish
Entries from an Encyclopedia of A Life in Russia, via José Manuel Prieto
Operating under the pseudonym of Thelonius Monk, a refined but mostly aspirant Cuban witness to the final days of the Soviet imperium offers these clarificiations of several regional enigmas. Babionki (бабионки). There are, of course, women—or mujeres as I might prefer to call them—in Muscovy, but there are babionki, as well, and these latter are […]
Writers: Esther Allen, José Manuel Prieto
“Stanzas for an Imaginary Garden,” by Octavio Paz
The municipal government of Mexico City approached Octavio Paz with a proposal to build, in his childhood neighborhood of Mixcoac, a public garden whose gates and walls would be decorated with his poems. Mixcoac, once a charming village on the outskirts of the city, is now largely a desolate, anonymous corner of the spreading megalopolis. […]
Writers: Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz