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• Las altas horas / The Late Hours

  1 January, by Margaret Randall

• La ley de los volcanes

  1 January, by Margaret Randall

  These are excellent Spanish translations of three books of poetry by Adrienne Rich. I wrote the introduction, which ventures into uncharted territory with regard to long-held admiration for Pablo Neruda’s 20 Poems of Love and One of Desperation.

• Lupe’s Dream and Other Stories

  1 January, by Margaret Randall

  During the 20190-2021 COVID pandemic, I suddenly found myself writing short stories, something I had done before only very occasionally. This is a collection of 23, all loosely linked by altered concepts of space and time.

• Estrellas de mar sobre una playa: Los poemas de la pandemia

  1 January, by Margaret Randall

  Sandra Toro translated my pandemic poems, and Abisinia Press in Buenos Aires and Escarabajo Publishers in Bogotá produced this beautiful bilingual co-edition, with drawings by Barbara Byers.

• Starfish on a Beach: The Pandemic Poems

  1 January, by Margaret Randall

  As the COVID pandemic gripped the world, I found myself writing poems addressing some of the feelings and experiences it engendered. I posted some on Facebook, and there was an immediate response, which prompted me to keep going. Soon I had a book-length collection.