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TRANSLATION Translated from Portuguese by Janet Hendrickson
Four Poems from Sap Venom or Fruit
Janet Hendrickson
Janet Hendrickson translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Her experimental translation of a 1611 dictionary by Sebastián de Covarrubias, Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (New Directions, 2019) was longlisted for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She also translated The Future Is Not Ours (ed. Diego Trelles Paz, Open Letter, 2012), an anthology of contemporary Latin American fiction. Other translations have appeared in venues including Granta, n+1, The White Review, and Mandorla.
