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Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos



Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos ~
Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles
By ~ Por Jorge Fernández Granados
(Translation: John Oliver Simon)
Nine poems by the winner of Mexico's Aguascalientes Poetry Prize, one of the most outstanding poets of his generation. English and Spanish side-by-side. Includes a translator's introduction. To read the title poem, "Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles," click here.
ISBN 978-0-9674093-6-8
pp. 40, 6" x 9" February ~ febrero 2008. Cover painting, "Tiled Window and Seashell with View to Mexico City" by Elena Climent.
Price: USD $6.95 Available January 2008
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An Avocado from Michoacán ~
Carne verde, piel negra
By ~ Por Agustín Cadena
(Translation: C.M. Mayo)
A story by the winner of Mexico's San Luis Potosí Award for the Short Story. English and Spanish side-by-side. Includes interview with the author and translator's notes.
Agustín Cadena was born in 1963 in the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico. Poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator, he has published more than twenty books in these genres and received numerous national awards, fellowships and other recognition for his literary work. His most recent book is Los pobres de espíritu, which won Mexico's San Luis Potosí National Prize for Fiction. His writing has been translated into English, Italian and Hungarian as well as adapted for radio and television. He currently teaches a seminar on Mexican culture and literature at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary.
C.M. Mayo is founding editor of Tameme and author of Miraculous Air and Sky Over El Nido, which was translated by Agustín Cadena as El cielo de El Nido.
ISBN 978-0-9670493-5-1
pp. 24, 6" x 9" February ~ febrero 2007. Cover painting, "Avocados" by Edgar Soberón.
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Tameme, the now at-rest bilingual (Spanish/ English) literary journal of new writing from North America— Canada, the US and Mexico.

"A kind of cultured, literary response to NAFTA... provocative and satisfying...
The translations are superb" — Leora Zeitlin, Bloomsbury Review

# 1 The Premier Issue ~ El primer número (1998)
Edited by C.M. Mayo. In English and Spanish with side-by-side translations and extensive translators' notes. Writing by A. Manette Ansay, Margaret Atwood, Edwidge Danticat, Douglas Glover, William C. Gruben, Lynda McDonnell, Fabio Morábito, Daniel Sada, Juan Villoro; poems by Alberto Blanco, Alicia Borinsky, Tedi López Mills, Jaime Sabines, Marianne Toussaint; translations by Gabriel Bernal Granados, Agustín Cadena, Cola Franzen, Amy Schildhouse Greenberg, Geoff Hargreaves, Pura López Colomé, C.M. Mayo, Bertha Ruiz de la Concha, Eliot Weinberger, and others. Cover features the painting "Música" by Mexico City artist Francisco Miranda.
ISSN 1089-7208, 9" x 6" pp.218
Price: USD$14.95
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"Tameme is just what I need: a treat — a cornucopia of good stuff to read — and a trot — enough of a crutch to let me pretend I can handle literary Spanish."
— Howard Junker, Editor, Zyzzyva

#2 Sun and Moon ~ Sol y luna (2001)
Edited by C.M. Mayo. In English and Spanish with side-by-side translations and extenstive translators' notes.Writing by Julian Anderson, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Daniel Orozco, Luis Arturo Ramos, Antonio Sarabia, Jeff Taylor, Lex Williford; poems by Alberto Blanco, Coral Bracho, Agustín Cadena, CAConrad, Elsa Cross, Juana Goergen, Gladys Illauregui, Martha Black Jordan, Fabio Morábito, Alvaro Mutis, P.K. Page, Nela Rio. Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, Virgil Suárez, Gabriel Zaid; translations by Coral Bracho, Paulo da Costa, Patricia Dubrava, Claudia Fernanda Esteve, Cola Franzen, Juan Carlos Galeano, Geoff Hargreaves, Claire Joysmith, Elizabeth Gamble Miller, Bertha Ruiz de la Concha, Mark Shafer, Kathleen Snodgrass, Silvia R. Tandecíarz, Benjamín Valdivia, Herzonia Yáñez, and others. Cover (both front and back) features paintings by DeLoss McGraw. This issue was made possible by a grant from the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture.
ISSN 1089-7208, 9" x 6" pp.226
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"[Tameme is] wonderful discovery... Look at it as a collection of well-written, accessibly enjoyable literature, as a window onto two cultures, or as a gentle guide to learning another language; whichever way, it is an important addition to the roster of literary magazines."
– Nadine S. St. Louis, Literary Magazine Review

#3 Reconquest ~ Reconquista (2003)
Edited by C.M. Mayo. In English and Spanish with side-by-side translations and extensive translators' notes.Writing by Kate Blackwell, Greg Bottoms, Marlena Corcoran, Philip Garrison, Ray González, Eduardo González-Viaña, Farley Mowat, Guillermo Samperio, José Skinner, Juan Villoro; poems by Alberto Blanco, CAConrad, Agustín Cadena, Marilyn Chin, Cola Franzen, Juana Goergen, Oscar Hahn, Colette Inez, D. Nurkse, Diana O'Hehir, Julian Palley, M.A. Schaffner, Pat Schneider, Charles Simic; translations by Juvenal Acosta, Alicia Borinsky, Coral Bracho, Russel M. Cluff, Consuelo Corretjer, Paolo da Costa, Mónica de la Torre, Patricia Dubrava, Noemí Escandell, Claudia Fernanda Esteve, Juan Carlos Galeano, James Hoggard, Marta López-Luaces, Alfredo Michel Modenessi, Egla Morales Blouin, L. Howard Quackenbush, Silvia R. Tandercíarz, Ilán Stavans, Diana Vélez, Herzonia Yáñez, and others. Cover features the painting "The Visitors II" by Derek Buckner.This issue was made possible by a grant from the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture.
ISSN 1089-7208, 9" x 6", pp.249
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"The vision and reality of Tameme are a delight, a challenge, a renovation... The range of texts — produced in North America proper, that is, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico — play with genre and geography to bring us a clearer view of our literary world, looking rich and strange."
– Amanda Powell, University of Oregon

Read another review in ForeWord

and the brink of enormous change. This is a bilingual edition of a chapter from C.M. Mayo's Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, a work lauded by Interamerican Studies Institute as "perhaps the best new book about Mexico (and — indirectly — its northern neighbor) in many years." Click here to read more about this title (includes an excerpt). The cover features the painting "The Visitors" by Derek Buckner.
ISBN 0967409322, 9'" x 6" pp. 101, October 2002
Price: USD$12.95
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