Two Lines 31

by C.J. Evans (Editor), Emily Wolahan (Editor), Sarah Coolidge (Editor)

In addition to a dynamic collection of poetry and fiction from around the world, Two Lines 31: Hauntings brings together a selection of contemporary Mexican fiction that responds to the ways violence, loved ones, memories, and transformations can haunt our imaginations.

New stories from Alberto Chimal, tr. George Henson, Luis Filepe Lomeli, tr. Katherine Sutton, Daniela Tarazona, tr. Lizzie Davis, Milena Solot, tr. Robin Myers, and Pergentino Jos�, tr. Thomas Bunstead explore Mexican life from new, sometimes disturbing, but always arresting angles. These Mexican writers, virtually unknown to American readers, are set to burst into contemporary literary landscape as a new generation of Latin American voices.

Also in Two Lines 31: Hauntings is a selection of international literature from new voices around the globe: Boaz Izraeli's story "Architect," translated by Jessica Cohen, explores a bleak intellectual trap in modern-day Israel, while Shaheen Akhtar's Beloved Rongomala, tr. Shabnam Nadiya, presents adventure in historical Bangladesh. Poetry from Greece, Myanmar, Peru, and Switzerland present landscapes full of linguistic energy and hope.

196 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 2019

About the author

CJ Evans is the author of A Penance, forthcoming from New Issues Press in October, and The Category of Outcast, selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets chapbook series. He co-edited, with Brenda Shaughnessy, Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, and his work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is editor of Two Lines Press, which publishes contemporary international literature in translation, and a contributing editor for Tin House. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and three-legged cat.