Meet The Translator: Allison A. deFreese Presents I Am Not That Body

Join Folio Seattle and the Northwest Interpreters and Translators Society in celebrating the gift translators have to offer, and expand your view of universal literature with a series of monthly presentations featuring local translators and their books.

In her succinct—yet richly imagistic—poetry, explores the arid desert ecosystems of Northern Mexico, as well as themes related to immigration, social justice, femicide, perilous border crossings, and the disappearances of countless girls and women from Central America in harsh landscapes near the U.S./Mexican border. Verónica González Arredondo writes about extinction and survival, disappearing landscapes, displaced peoples, and the inhospitable climates (geographically and metaphorically) that remain in their wake. Yet she does so without casting blame or venturing directly into political and didactic terrain.Verónica González Arredondo

had been looking for a translation project that explored these themes for over three years. Verónica González Arredondo is a champion for human rights, indigenous rights, and especiall…