Michelle Har Kim
Michelle Har Kim lives in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles. She is a 2016 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, and has translated poems by José Watanabe for Guernica, Epiphany, and the Asian American Literary Review.
Reading List
The Asian Anglophone Garden
Pedro Shimose, Julia Wong Kcomt, and José Watanabe are Spanish-language writers celebrated in the South American countries of their birth, and authors increasingly seen as icons of ethnic Asian authorship in Latin America. For a U.S. reader inculcated by English literary traditions and North American approaches to race and difference—the economic, historico-cultural, and civil fraternity […]
Translations
Amazónica
Por la oscurana cunde la balsamina. Olorosas y blancas, las flores del floripondio. Más allacito del mangal, el río. La luna por el turbión del sueño, la miel de los guineos. No moriré del todo. Amazonian translated from the Spanish by Michelle Har Kim Spreading in the dark the rose balsam. […]