She sat beside her mother in the darkness of a movie theater and watched the story unfold as a black-and-white newsreel. Its crew fell ill, and its tuna, now “atomic,” was taken to the Tsukiji fish market only to be buried in the ground. The blast washed over a fishing boat, S.S. A blast of light, a column of water, a mushroom-shaped cloud, out there in the middle of the ocean. The US was testing bombs, setting them off to see what would happen, atomic first and then hydrogen. Out in the Pacific, bright light flashed over the Bikini Atoll. Her mother divided her long black hair into thirds and braided it. She was named Yōko, the yō from Taiheiyō, Japanese for Pacific Ocean.Īt six years old, she entered elementary school. She emerged from her mother’s womb after ten months and ten days. She was born in Tokyo on August 10, two years and a day after Nagasaki was blasted, three days after Hiroshima, by the flash of a nuclear bomb. The heat is accompanied by light, light that takes eight minutes and nineteen seconds to reach Earth. The energy from the nuclear fusion at its center takes over a million years to reach the surface. The sun is 1,400,000 kilometers in diameter. Translated from the Italian by John Taylor Johanna Drucker, Archaean Log or the Autopoiesis of a Prokaryote.Marcelo Cohen, Ruby and the Dancing Lake.Translated from the French by Alice Heathwood Jean-François Beauchemin, from Day of the Crows.

Translated from the Chinese by Catherine Xinxin Yu Translated from the Spanish by Robin Munby

Yolanda González, from Song of the Whale-road.

Robin Munby, A New Vocabulary of Translation.

Translated from the French by Gila Walker

Léonora Miano, Twilight of Torment: I.

Translated from the Italian by Allison Grimaldi Donahue

Carla Lonzi’s Self-Portrait: Experiments in Feminist Criticism.

Translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira

Rocío Agreda Piérola, Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk.

Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter Translated from the English and Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky

Yevgenia Belorusets, “The Complaint Against Language” in Wartime Ukraine.

Translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller Translated from the Lithuanian by Delija Valiukenas Translated from the Norwegian by Francesca M.

Gunnhild Øyehaug, But Out There-Out There–.

Translated from the Russian by Kotryna Garanasvili

Marius Ivaškevičius, from Russian Romance.

Translated from the Spanish by Paul Filev Translated from the German by Aaron Sayne

Leif Randt, from The Haze over Coby County.

Translated from the Spanish by James Terry Translated from the Catalan by Laia Sales Merino

Antònia Vicens i Picornell, from Lovely.

Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari

Fernando Pessoa, from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos.

Translated from the Spanish by Elena Barcia Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander

Mariana Berenice Bredow Vargas, Let it Go.

Translated from the Armenian by Antranik Cassem

Elemental by Erika Kobayashi