Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo is Antonio Ochoa’s first bilingual collection, a work that moves in spirals of “oscillation between hemispheres,” between poetry and prose,  between Spanish and English, between experience and memory. In this conversation, Ochoa and Dante Silva discuss translation as “transcreation,” Mexico’s colonial and multicultural history, and how the algae species sargassum invokes the interconnected currents of ecology, history, and politics. —Lucia Kan-Sperling Dante Silva: Is this your first translation of your own work? How did working across (and around) languages shape the writing? Antonio Ochoa: Yes, this is the first time that I’ve worked using…

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