Translated from the Spanish by Susan Ayres
This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.
Elsa Cross (Mexico City, 1946) is a poet, critic, and translator. Her collected poems were published in Mexico as Poesía completa (1964-2012), and she has subsequently published five more volumes of poetry. Translations of her works have appeared in England, Belgium, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, India, and Brazil. The most important literary awards in Mexico, as well as other prizes in Canada, France, Switzerland, and Italy have been given to her work. Cross holds a professorship in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she teaches philosophy of religion.
Susan Ayres is a poet, lawyer, and translator. She lives and teaches in north Texas, surrounded by her family and three cats, and two dogs. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in many journals, including Sycamore Review, Cimarron Review, Valparaiso Review. She can be reached at https://psusanayres.com/. She has a chapbook, Walk Like the Bird Flies, coming out in 2023.
