Two poems by Julia Wong Kcomt
“Reincarnation” and “The Cow’s Shadow” are translations of “Reencarnación” and “La sombra de la vaca,” poems by Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt from the collection Bi-rey-nato, which was published as a bilingual chapbook titled Vice-royal-ties in Ugly Duckling Presse’s Señal Latin American poetry series. These poems were published online on The Margins. Translated from Spanish. Published bilingually.
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