Engañar a Dios / Playing a trick on god

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from Issue 4 of What Happens

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Ariel Schettini was born in Quilmes, Provincia de Buenos Aires, in 1966. He has published three books of poems: Estados Unidos (Buenos Aires: la marca, 1994), La Guerra Civil (Buenos Aires: Norma, 2000) and La media sombra (Buenos Aires, Eloísa Cartonera 2019). His poems have been translated into English,
Portuguese and French. His book of criticism, El tesoro de la lengua: una historia Latinoamericana del yo (Buenos Aires: Entropía, 2009), revisits and rereads some of the most canonical poems in the Spanish language. He lives in Buenos Aires.

Tr. by Bianca Rae Messinger 👍