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Rosa Alcalá is the author of two books of poetry, Undocumentaries and The Lust of Unsentimental Waters, both from Shearsman Books. Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, edited and translated by Alcalá, was runner-up for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She is also the recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship in Translation.
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