Two poems by Julia Wong Kcomt
“a feather falls” and “by the river” are translations of “una pluma cae” and “cerca del río,” poems by tusán/Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt from the collection Un salmón ciego, which was published in July 2024 in a bilingual edition, A Blind Salmon, by Deep Vellum/Phoneme Media. These poems were published online on The Margins. Translated from Spanish. Published bilingually.
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