Where do those fond of men’s necks, black patent leather shoes, and strabismic eyes gather on Saturday nights? In Cristina Peri Rossi’s short story “Fetishists Anonymous,” of course. Read Tobias Hecht’s translation, originally published on WWB in 2005, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
![On the right, a portion of a painting of a messiah as a knight on a white horse riding against a swarm of men and wild beasts. On the left, black text over a red canvas background reads:
“National Translation Month,” with the WWB logo in black and the Academy of American Poets logo in black and bright blue below this. Remaining black text reads: “[Someone running with his head aflame] by Daniel Lipara, translated from Spanish by Robin Myers. ‘An impulse is an extraordinary glimmer, sometimes a blind one.’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ho65ysdggjjtbdshnsjlaeuk/bafkreibtkmumh4jfc66kstqnf34ggtai6onmxmpuyvbiiy5kdldmg3lrm4)
