lo que les dijo el licántropo / what the werewolf told them by Chely Lima. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Randall (The Operating System, paperback)
Publication Date: May 20, 2017
Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "Here is the strength of poetry for the world. Is it possible this book exists? I cannot be the only one who realizes I have been waiting all my life to read Chely Lima! The poet driving their own body in the trunk through the vast vulnerable fields of becoming human the way they want to become human in an inflexible world. Many thanks to Margaret Randall for these beautiful translations of one of the most brilliant books in many years! Chely Lima is here! Everyone tell everyone!" —CA Conrad
"These poems are also gender-transgressive, revealing a personal journey as painful as it has been liberating. And it is a complicated journey. We cannot say the poet is only a man or that he was once a woman; such binary notions are themselves being challenged here. Body parts and the uses to which they are assigned in our inadequate society are routed from their comfort zones, made to look at themselves in a succession of mirrors and confronted head on. Chely refuses to play by society's hypocritical rules—in his life or work." —translator Margaret Randall, from the introduction.
