“There are people who upon dying”

A. E. Quintero is the author of fifteen titles in poetry and the recipient of such awards as the Premio Nacional de Poesía Enriqueta Ochoa (1996) and the Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascalientes (2011), Mexico’s most prestigious prize in poetry. “There are people who upon dying” is drawn from El pequeño libro de la lluvia [The Little Book of the Rain] (2017), a finalist for the Loewe Foundation International Poetry Prize. (updated 4/2021)

AGNI‘s publication of “There are people who upon dying” marked the first time Quintero’s work appeared in English.

Whitney DeVos is the translator of Notes Toward a Pamphlet by Sergio Chejfec (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020) and The Semblable by Chantal Maillard (Ugly Duckling, 2020). Her short-form translations have appeared in World Literature Today, Latin American Literature Today, Full Stop, AGNI, Chicago Review, Copper Nickel, and The Acentos Review. Also a writer, scholar, and assistant poetry editor of Asymptote, she lives in Mexico City. (updated 4/2021)