Mariana Spada

Aug 23, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Mariana Spada |Tobias Carroll |Susan Harris

Chaotic, crowded, noisy. I looked down from my perch on the 300-meter-high tie beams. Beijing West Railway Station was buzzing. Throngs of passengers like so many wriggling Cambrian organisms, a rhythmic rumble barreling up from the places they seemed to crawl. My ears couldn’t make out a thing, but each utterance was captured by sensors, sent to the Control Center and spelled out by the vocal recognition machines, all before being slipped into the surveillance files. This was the big rush.

Aug 22, 2023 | store.deepvellum.org | Mariana Spada

By Mariana SpadaTranslated by Robin MyersFeaturing a preface by Esther AllenThe Law of Conservation is a poetry collection intensely attuned to landscape, both geographic and metaphorical.

Aug 21, 2023 | lithub.com | Mariana Spada

Nada hay como remar de nochepor un río negro y conocidotan negro que la luna reverberasobre el perfil tornasolado de los pecescruzando el caudal antiguomil cuchillos arrojados desde el fondopor una mano ciega. En este río domado por represaslas ramas se vuelcan mansas lejos dela orilla, y besan el agua dondeabrevan las luciérnagas que una vezpareció que nos seguían. Este ríolo cruzamos juntos una noche, desdeuna costa de arena hasta la otra deespinas.

Aug 15, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Mariana Spada |Bora Chung |Wesley Lewis

Mariana Spada’s poetry collection The Law of Conservation is out this month from Deep Vellum in Robin Myers’s translation. In this poem, Spada echoes the questions and comments she receives about her trans identity from the people around her. When did you knowwhat you            were? What            didyou            feel                        the first                                    time            you glanced at yourself            in the mirrorand            knew?