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100 Refutations Published Serially in The Brooklyn Rail
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100 Refutations: “Introduction—A Manifesto”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day One: “I”
   Written by Aída Párraga
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Two: “Isle of Mine”
   Written by Marie-Ange Jolicoeur
   Translated from the French by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Three: “video”
   Written by José Eugenio Sánchez
   Translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong

Day Four: “That photo in black and white”
   Written by Mara Pastor
   Translated from the Spanish by María José Giménez

Day Five: “unheimlich II” & “hunger”
   Written by María José Giménez

Day Six: “Intimate”
   Written by Juana Borrero
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seven: “The Old Indians”
   Written by Joaquín Pasos
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “The Heart of the Pineapple”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eight: “from The Primitive Customs of the Hummingbird”
   Written by Unknown Guaraní poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Nine: “from Shakespeare Imitation”
   Written by Mercedes Belzú de Dorado
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ten: “Ego Sum”
   Written by Gaspar Octavio Hernández
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eleven: “Nine Monsters”
   Written by César Vallejo
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twelve: “from Poisonous Poetry”
   Written by Rebecca Lane
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirteen: “Little-Little Man”
   Written by Alfonsina Storni
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fourteen: “from Ollántay, a Quechua Play”
   Written by Unknown
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Empire of Flies”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifteen: “False Accounts”
   Written by Delmira Agustini
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixteen: “Beowulf’s Dream”
   Written by Mauricio Molina Delgado
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventeen: “Before the Sea”
   Written by Krisma Mancía
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighteen: “Umbra”
   Written by Salomé Ureña
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Nineteen: “Bird” & “Afternoon’s Vertigo”
   Written by Irina Henríquez
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty: “¡Eheu!”
   Written by Rubén Darío
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty-One: “There will be no end to my flowers”
   Written by Nezahualcóyotl
   Translated anonymously from the Classical Nahuatl into Spanish
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Rise”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty-Two: “hex poem to colonizers, recolonizers,
                               and haters”
   Written by Claritza Maldonado
   Translated from the Spanish by Urayoán Noel

Day Twenty-Three: “Blasón”
   Written by José Santos Chocano
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty-Four: “from Quechuan Lilies”
   Written by “A Few Pariahs,” various Quechuan poets
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty-Five: “Homeless” & “The presence Denied”
   Written by Clementina Suárez
   Translated from the Spanish by Janet N. Gold

Day Twenty-Six: “The Siege of Huexotzinco”
   Written by Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty-Seven: “Untitled”
   Written by Serge Saint-Jean
   Translated from the French by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
   and Addie Leak

Day Twenty-Eight: “Nightfall”
   Written by Remigio Crespo Toral
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “The Weight of a Work”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Twenty-Nine: “A Longing for Vengeance”
   Written by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty: “New York”
   Written by Demetrio Korsi
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-One: “Only Poem”
   Written by María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Two: “Grotto”
   Written by Rocío Cerón
   Translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong

Day Thirty-Three: “This is How I Want to Die”
   Written by Rosario Orrego
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Four: “Cardboard Dragons I”
   Written by Susana Reyes
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Five: “Song, song of grief . . .”
   Written by Unknown Incan Poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Conquered Song”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Six: “Cuba Unites Us”
   Written by José Martí
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Seven: “Monday Song”
   Written by Vicente Acosta
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Eight: “from Song of Nezahualpilli”
   Written by Nezahualpilli
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Thirty-Nine: “Nenia”
   Written by Carlos Guido y Spano
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty: “Cuba Unites Us”
   Written by Carl Brouard
   Translated from the French by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
   and Addie Leak

Day Forty-One: “Song without title”
   Written by Unknown Mayan Poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty-Two: “Dignificada”
   Written by Lila Downs
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “The Interrogation of Assam”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty-Three: “Poison”
   Written by Clément Magloire-Saint-Aude
   Translated from the French by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
   and Addie Leak

Day Forty-Four: “Veritas”
   Written by Santiago Argüello
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty-Five:“The Beautiful Text” & “Omen”
   Written by Eliana Díaz Muñoz
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty-Six: “The Madman’s Skull”
   Written by Juan Ramón Molina
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty-Seven: “Behind My Voice”
   Written by Circe Maia
   Translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Day Forty-Eight: “from A Blessing” [1902]
   Written by Unknown Mayan Poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Forty-Nine: “Daybreak”
   Written by Regnor Charles Bernard
   Translated from the French by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
   and Addie Leak

100 Refutations: “The Mystic”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifty: “The Magnets of the Abyss”
   Written by María Adela Bonavita
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifty-One: “Song of Silence & Asé”
   Written by Lívia Natália
   Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Tiffany Higgins

Day Fifty-Two: “from The Creation of the Uinal”
   Written by Unknown Mayan Poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifty-Three: “Footprints”
   Written by Written by Maria Farazdel

Day Fifty-Four: “In Waters of Darkness & Cihuateteo”
   Written by Jeannette L. Clariond
   Translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

Day Fifty-Five: “The Sun and I . . .”
   Written by Elvira Espejo Ayca
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifty-Six: “We Came to Dream”
   Written by Tochihuitzin Coyolchiuhqui
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Hello Sister”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifty-Seven: “For Haiti”
   Written by Amédée Brun
   Translated from the French by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
   and Addie Leak

Day Fifty-Eight: “Nostalgia”
   Written by Virgilio Dávila
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Fifty-Nine: “Defeated & Sign of the Times”
   Written by Carmen Peña Visbal
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty: “from Relaciones, or Anales”
   Written by Chimalpahin
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-One: “Neurosis”
   Written by Francisco Gavidia
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Two: “To Live and Die”
   Written by Manuel Gonzáles Prada
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Three: “Prayer to the Moon”
   Written by Unknown Guaraní Poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Mother of Verbs”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Four: “Foolish Men”
   Written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Five: “The Man”
   Written by Adela Zamudio
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Six: “Indigenous Identity”
   Written by Márcia Wayna Kambeba
   Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Jan Oldenburg

Day Sixty-Seven: “Retelling of the Flood Caused by
                               the Mapocho River in the City
                               of Santiago de Chile”
   Written by Sor Tadea de San Joaquín
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Eight: “Like Coal”
   Written by Briceida Cuevas Cob
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Sixty-Nine: “Return to the Countryside” & “Rationing”
   Written by María Teresa Ogliastri
   Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Neisser

Day Seventy: “Every time . . .”
   Written by Unknown Mayan poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “ Genesis 4”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-One: “I, Who Am Ignorant”
   Written by Manuel Saturio Valencia Mena
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Two: “from the Popol Vuh, or National
                                Quiché History”
   Written by Unknown Mayan poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Three: “Witches”
   Written by José Solón Argüello Escobar
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Four: “from Dangerous Matter”
   Written by Gabriel Cantú Westendarp
   Translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

Day Seventy-Five: “Reading III: A Reading to Help
                                 the Daughters of Bureaucrats
                                 Fall Asleep Prayer for the Lovers
                                 of Carbon”
   Written by Andrea Crespo Granda
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Six: “Hunter of Flies”
   Written by Alberto Guillén
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Seven: “This Is Not a Metaphor”
   Written by Laura Fuentes Belgrave
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Animals”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Eight: “Song of the Jaguar”
   Written by Unknown Guaraní poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Seventy-Nine: “Untitled”
   Written by Marília Floôr Kosby
   Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Julia Sanches

Day Eighty: “Family”
   Written by Cindy Jiménez-Vera
   Translated from the Spanish by Carina del Valle Schorske

Day Eighty-One: “from the riddles of Chilam Balam
                            (from the First Enigma)”
   Written by Unknown Mayan poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Two: “The Existential Nothingness of Crabs”
   Written by Lil Marie Herrera
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Three: “from The Creation of the Uinal
                                (and the World)”
   Written by Unknown Mayan poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Four: “Upon a smooth lake . . .”
   Written by Unknown Incan poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

100 Refutations: “Bottled Splendor”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Five: “God Save You”
   Written by Pedro Bonifacio Palacios (Almafuerte)
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Six: “The New Earth”
   Written by Unknown Guaraní poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Seven: “Farewell”
   Written by María Josefa García Granados
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Eight: “The Coward”
   Written by Unknown Incan poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Eighty-Nine: “Parenthesis”
   Written by Andrés Mata”
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety: “civil status”
   Written by Adelaide Ivánova
   Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Francisco Vilhena

Day Ninety-One: “Costa Rica Says to Donald Trump
                             ‘You’re Fired’ (Carepicha)”
   Written by John Manuel Arias

100 Refutations: “Bread and Blood”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety-Two: “the red and white”
   Written by Written by Marilyn Dumont

Day Ninety-Three: “from The Foundation of the Human
                                Language (Section III)”
   Written by Unknown Guaraní poet
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety-Four: “Jovita Has Died”
   Written by Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety-Five: “The Occasional Death of the Bullfighter”
   Written by Rafael Landívar
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety-Six: “from Land of the Free”
   Written by Samuel Alfred Haynes

Day Ninety-Seven: “A Flight of Flamingos”
   Written by Eloy Fariña Nuñez
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety-Eight: “Boat Adrift & A Man Dressed in White”
   Written by Enrique Noriega
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day Ninety-Nine: “Songs of Cacamatzin”
   Written by Cacamatzin
   Translated from the Spanish by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Day One Hundred: “Hajasy”
   Written by Unknown Guaraní poet
   Translated from the Guaraní by Unknown Guaraní poet

100 Refutations: “Coda”
   Written by Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas  

Amanda Dambrink (co-editor of 100 Refutations) works as an editor for the University of Wisconsin’s Continuing Education, Outreach & E-Learning program in Madison, Wisconsin. She also holds an MA in creative nonfiction from Ohio University, and her previous work has appeared in Prairie Margins and The Normal School, among others.

Jennifer Zoble is a writer, editor, and literary translator. She coedits InTranslation, the online journal of international literature that she cofounded in 2007 at The Brooklyn Rail. Her translations have appeared in Anomalous, Washington Square Review, Absinthe, The Iowa Review, The Baffler, and Stonecutter, among others. She teaches academic and creative writing in the interdisciplinary liberal studies program at NYU.