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 […]
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 […]
INTRODUCTION Death Poem by Jumah al Dossari Take my blood. Take my death shroud and The remnants of my body. Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely. Send them to the world, To the judges and To the people of conscience, Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded. […]