Author

Cardenas, J.N.

J.N. Cardenas is a poet, filmmaker, and literary translator from Los Angeles, with additional roots in Bolivia. His work has been published in such journals as Entropy, Sulfur Surrealist Jungle, Círculo de Poesía (Mexico), and Párrafo Magazine (UCLA). His translation of the long poem Yelidá by Dominican poet Tomás Hernández Franco (co-translated with Anthony Seidman) was published by Trainwreck Press of Canada. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and poems, and a documentary about poets from Mexico’s northern border region.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

Tiwanaku and Other Poems contemporary

Pedro Shimose

Against the triumphalist temporality of capital, empire, and colonial modernity, Shimose’s poetry excavates the ruins through which history persists as material violence, sedimented memory, and the unfinished struggle over who may inhabit the future. Moving between the archaeological afterlives of stone, the lethal trajectories of objects, and the insurgent metamorphoses of vegetal life, these poems forge an archaeo-poetics in which translation becomes a redistribution of historical agency, implicating the reader in the very terrain where language, dispossession, and collective survival converge.

  • poetry
  • translation
  • contemporary
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