Intervenir/Intervene

Intervenir/Intervene is a searing, tender, unflinching collaboration between two Mexican poets-Dolores Dorantes, who lived in Ciudad Juárez for 25 years and now has political asylum in Los Angeles, and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez, who lives in Mexico City. Intervenir/Intervene asks questions no one should have to ask: in a climate of state-sponsored violence, what kinds of speech, writing, relation are possible? We are being intervened. How do we collaborate? How do we resist? Translated by Jen Hofer, a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, bookmaker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder of the language justice and literary experimentation collaborative Antena.