Monthly Archives: January 2020

Review: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver)

Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver) (London: Vintage, 1974) Reviewed by Saoirse Grace, Esq., California Institute of Integral Studies   Invisible Cities is presented as a conversation between effervescent narrators. Marco Polo, Venetian explorer and de facto ethnographer of Western, Central, and East Asian cities and Kublai Khan, emperor of the Mongolian Empire […]

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Translation: Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”

Artist Statement: I chose to translate Gloria Anzaldúa’s How to Tame a Wild Tongue. I’m presenting a video in which I wrap a metal wire tightly around my head, then untie it. The accompanying audio is a recording of me struggling to speak a poem in Gaelic, then presenting it in English. In How to […]

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