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Frequency: Annual
Sub. Cost: $10.00 per issue

Ed. Stmt: The first issue of Mandorla: New Writing From the Americas was published in May 1991 as an attempt to begin a meaningful dialogue that is bilingual--multilingual, in fact--but not in the conventional sense of the word. In English and Spanish translated material appears only in its surrogate tongue; previously unpublished work is featured only in its original language; and in the case of poetry in French or Portuguese, the work appears in its original, with translations into both Spanish and English. Other voices reading--or re-reading--each other's writing so as to authorize a body coherent with the intellectual and creative vitality of the hemisphere.
Mandorla is edited and printed in Mexico City: the site where the cultural debate between north and south may well occur. In fact, the name of the magazine--"mandorla," describing that space created by two intersecting circles--alludes to the notion of exchange and imaginative dialogue that is an obligation now among the Americas. The terrain to be forged is like the American continent itslef: virtually boundless. [220+ pp. Bound & sewn, full-color cover.]

Octavio Paz, William Carlos Williams, Calvert Casey, Albert Ruy Sanchez, Eliseo Diego, Charles Olson, Nathaniel Tarn, Jack Spicer, Clayton Eshleman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Michael Palmer, Paul Christensen, Gerardo Deniz, Roberto Echavarren, Jose Kozer, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Tracy, Carmen Boullosa, Nathaniel Mackey, Alfonso D'Aquino, Jose Castro Lenero, Magali Tercero, Julio Hubard, Guillermo Osorno, Purificacion Jimenez.

Walt Whitman, Jose Lezama Lima, Peter Cole, Karin Lessing, Ana Rosa Gonzalez Matute, Rosemarie Waldrop, Osvaldo Sanchez, Maria Negroni, Elsa Cross, Forrest Gander, Michael Heller, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, William Bronk, Eliot Weinberger, Alberto Blanco, Jose Pascual Buxo, Magali Tercero, Giannina Braschi, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Jason Weiss, Andrew Schelling, Alfred Arteaga, Luisa Furotansky, Consuelo Castaneda, Quisqueya Henriquez, Esther Allen, Gloria Gevirtz, Josue Ramirez, David Levi Strauss, Benjamin Friedlander, Susan Thackrey, Jeff Gburek, Charles Olson, Julio Hubard, John Oliver Simon, Gabriel Bernal Granados, Carmen Boullosa, George Economou, Luis Cortest.

Severo Sarduy, Louis Zukofsky, Gustaf Sobin, Nathaniel Tarm, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Alfonso D'Aquino, Will Alexander, Phillip Foss, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, George Economou, Roberto Echavarren, Horacio Costa, Charles Bernstein, Suzanne Jill Levine, James Thomas Stevens, Martine Bellen, Ricardo Pohlenz, Heather Ramsdell, Dan Featherston, Juliana Spahr, Mark McMorris, Eduardo Espina, Elsa Torres Garza, Kerry Sherin, Reina Maria Rodriguez, Guillermo Bostock, Todd Baron, Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Charles Perrone, Eduardo Milan, Ana Rosa Gonzalez Matute, Julio Hubard, Ernesto Grossman, Carmen Corona del Conde, Lorna Scott Fox, Maria Palomar, Gabriel Bernal Granados, Daniel Senise, Roberto Tejada.