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Quote by Barbara Jane Reyes

“A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.”

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Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet born in 1971. Her work explores themes of race, gender, and identity, deeply influenced by Latin American and Filipino American cultures. more

“When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.”

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Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.”

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Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.”

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Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“Our senses are always part of the process.”

Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.”