The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow

Editors: Kythe Maryam Heller & Carolina Gomez-Montoya

Publisher: Stenen Press (2023)

Translation as friendship. Translation in a fractured world. Our inaugural anthology—The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra—cross-pollinates five pairs of internationally-celebrated poets and a visual artist through original poetry, mutual translation, and collaborative essays about the act of translation. The artwork offers dazzling patterns that resonate with language, suggesting cosmologies of dissolution and rebirth.

In The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra, editors Kythe Maryam Heller and Carolina Gómez-Montoya position English within a constellation, one point on a journey that is both cyclical and fresh. Here, translation means intimate, living relationships that expand beyond language and that model social practice. The result is a life-affirming language all its own.