The inaugural 2014 Prize in Translation Winner features excerpts from The World as Presence by Cuban writer Marcelo Morales Cintero, translated and with an introduction by Kristin Dykstra..

­­The poems of Lost Privilege Company appear under the signature of the Blunt Research Group, an anonymous, contemporary collective of poets, activists, and scholars of diverse origin. The poems …

With thumb and forefinger I examined carefully the ball peen hammer. The sparrow slid violently into third base. Night after night it was Nascar, kettle corn, karaoke. Wendy wore burlap, clapping her …

Some nights inside the caterwaul of coyotes / the telephone rings, very late or very early. / Then my father walks out into darkness. / My mother still sleeping / and I am.

...someone’s / white Dodge pickup blinkering down / the mountain, on the windshield / needle-likes, double columns, pentameters, / Bentley’s iconographic crystals / playing into zero visibility.

Silent gray boulders are lapped at / by waves. What’s that / in the mud where the tide is going out? / Buttons; bottle caps; small bits / of styrofoam that look like shells or coral…

For God's sake, / have a little consideration! Why wake him? / Another fisherman was sitting on a stone block, / a stone block glittering with mica.

This is where the wheel is broken at the cistern / and the weeds of dandelion rise to over six feet tall, / their star-shaped heads not yet in blossom.

"And then it was May, time to let the grapes grow and fish anchovies;" or so it went for centuries in the town of Collioure, which attributed its escape from the plague of the 14th century to its …

We moved on low power since the noise neutralizers haven’t thawed from everything. We found rudimentary structures seemingly abandoned...

I left Lover when I found dirt roads—party for another/couple, soirée complete with deer heads lining a fixed-up barn’s walls,/absinthe, strung lights. In pairs, we played pissing …

And in the flash point I was manacled, I saw / our fierce mirroring was never / friendship, twin-ship, / but a crafty fisherman's net, / a supplanting spider's stratagem-I saw / how slowly and …