What Comes Back
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What Comes Back (originally, Los que regresan) is Peñalosa’s debut for English audiences. He has written four books of poetry, all published in Spanish. Los que regresan won Mexico’s prestigious Xirau Icaza Poetry Prize in 2017.
Peñalosa’s narrative draws inspiration from Mexico City’s history: an ancient lake in the area was drained so cities could be built on the (newly) dry land
Javier Peñalosa M. shares a name with his grandfather (Javier Peñalosa Castro), who was also a poet
Peñalosa received his MFA in creative writing in Spanish from NYU
A 2023 NEA Translation Fellow and winner of the 2019 Words Without Borders Translation Contest, Robin Myers is an acclaimed and prolific Spanish-to-English translator
Audience: Fans of narrative poetry, poetry in translation, and bilingual Spanish/English collections; fans of eco-poetry and stories of migration; fans of Mexico City and South America’s poets; fans of surreal or disembodied poetry
Robin Myers
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Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow. Recent translations include What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M.; The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón; and A Whale is a Country and In Vitro, both by Isabel Zapata. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Yale Review, The Drift, Poetry London, and elsewhere; her essays, in Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, and Latin American Literature Today .
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