The June 2012 Words Without Borders is out now. The theme this month is Queer. As usual there is an interesting selection as well as a review of Andrés Neuman’s Traveler of the Century which I also reviewed.

Fiction by Cristina Peri Rossi

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Seventeen years old: a terrible age for studying. A terrible age for anything other than fornicating.

Translated by Megan Berkobien bilingual version

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Fiction by Alonso Sanchez Baute

Death

If a queen cries an entire sea, she has to cry the Mediterranean or, at least, the Aegean

Translated by George Henson bilingual version

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by Ilana Zeffren

This is How it is When You’re Involved with Sensitive Girls

I choose to keep away from shrinks and still end up on their sofa.

Translated by Ilana Zeffren

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Poetry by Jean Sénac

from “Edgard’s Lessons”

If singing my love is loving my country, I am a soldier

Translated by Douglas Basford bilingual version

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Fiction by Kim Bi

Tree of Lips

She wished she were blind so she couldn’t see the man mincing around, mimicking her father in a skirt.

Translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Eunjung Kwon-Lee bilingual version