Poems by PILAR QUINTANA
Translated from the Spanish by WILL HOWARD

Poems appear in English below. Read the original in Spanish here.

Translator’s Note

Mary Ruefle said in an interview that she’d like to try writing the same story in progressively shorter forms. She would begin with a novel, then rewrite it as a short story, then a poem, and, finally, a haiku. Pilar Quintana’s “Untamable Animals” feels like the second step in such an exercise. Nothing is missing, but its shape suggests, somewhere, a longer and equally entrancing story.