Childhood

Luciana Jazmín Coronado
Translated from the Spanish by Allison A. deFreese

I steal facesand keep them in the branches.I assemble this bodyfrom walnutsthat someone’s parentsleave on the path.I embrace a germ of water,create new waysto be born into other familieslike a small offering.

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Born in Buenos Aires, Luciana Jazmín Coronado has published several highly acclaimed books of poetry including: La insolación / Sunstroke (Viajero Insomne, 2014) and Catacumbas / Catacombs (Valparaíso, 2016), winner of the First San Salvador Prize for Hispano-American Poetry (El Salvador). Her third book of verse, Los hijos Imperfectos / Imperfect Children, appeared in February 2023 (from Modesto Rimba, Argentina, and RIL Editores, Spain). Her first book in translation (the chapbook Dinner at Las Heras, which includes poems from Catacumbas) won the C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Award and was published in 2024: https://www.crpress.org/cr-press-winter-soup-bowl-chapbook-awards-2023/.

Allison A. deFreese’s translations of Luciana Jazmín Coronado’s poetry appear in Asymptote, Boulevard, Gulf Coast Literary Journal, Pacifica, and swamp pink. She is president of the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters and a regional planner for #ALTA49.

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No. 116

Richmond Heights, Missouri

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