Two poems by Julia Wong Kcomt

“Balcony One” and “Balcony Three” are translations of poems by Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt from the collection Oro muerto. These poems were published in print in the anthology Daughters of Latin America (Amistad/HarperCollins). Translated from Spanish.

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