Based on slippages between languages and irreverent approaches to translation, the poems in Repetition Nineteen riff on creative misunderstanding in response to the prevailing political discourse. At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Monica de la Torre's first book, written in Spanish. She embarked on this new genre-defying project after realizing she had been living in New York for as long as she had lived in Mexico City, where she was born. The works here focus on translation as displacement, mediation, and a form of code-switching. In the latter half of the book, Replay,\" we get a glimpse of de la Torre's translation practice in action as she invites passers-by to participate in series of translation experiments during an artist residency in Madison Square Park. Given the nativism of our current climate, both halves of Repetition Nineteen celebrate translation's possibilities and political relevancy.\""Monica de la Torre's most recent poetry book is The Happy End/All Welcome, a riff on Martin Kippenberger's The Happy End of Franz Kafka's America, itself a riff on Kafka's unfinished Amerika. Other books of hers include Public Domain and Sociedad Anonima. She was born and raised in Mexico City and is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine. She writes about art and frequently collaborates with artists. She teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. Her translation of Defensa del idolo by Chilean modernist Omar Caceres was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse. | Repetition Nineteen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters