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Tobacco Dogs by Ana Minga

The Dark Territory in Ana Minga’s Tobacco Dogs, Translated by Alexis Levitin

Reviewed by Emily Thompson In his preface to Ana Minga’s Tobacco Dogs, translator Alexis Levitin sets the scene for the collection’s thirty-four poems: “Let us think of Hieronymus Bosch. Let us think of Francis Bacon. Let us think of Goya. These, to my mind, are her anguished compatriots” (viii). That the poet should find herself […]