Your Impossible Voice
Francisco García González
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Issue 30 | Spring 2024

May 7, 2024

Issue thirty is searching, seeking, straining for roots, for mothers, for stylish shoes, and The Truth. It’s about mysterious X-rays and golden crabs, motorcycles and masquerades, joyful silences and mild underhavens. It’s voyeuristic, nostalgic, and completely out to sea. 

Featuring daring new work and translations by Jeffrey Kingman, Veronica Wasson, Kasimma, Wilfrido Nolledo, Amy DeBellis, Khalil AbuSharekh, Lina Munar Guevara and Ellen Jones, Daniel David Froid, Ricardo Piglia and Erik Noonan, Bailey Sims, Francisco García González and Bradley J. Nelson, William Aarnes, Philip Jason, Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones, Betsy Martin, Nicole F. Kimball, and Alvin Lu.

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Eight Quebecois Surnames

May 7, 2024

Francisco García González
Translated by Bradley J. Nelson

“The ship is the San José. The language is French. The flag that waves on the mast is the insignia of Quebec. The story takes place in the future. Proximate. So close that it seems as if it has already happened.”

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2015 Your Impossible Voice Pushcart Nominations

Nov 26, 2014

We at Your Impossible Voice are thrilled to announce this year's nominations for the Pushcart Prize. A Coherent Desire by Francisco García González, translated by Mary G. BergEquisa by David BajoThe Elephant by Marianne VillanuevaFreezer Theater. 1981 by Laura...

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Carta desde Montreal/Letter from Montreal

Mar 11, 2014

By Francisco García González, English translation by Mary G. Berg
Amigos, disculpen, pero escribir es menos original que lo que uno se imagina. Solo se trata de un acto de registro que unos hacen mejores que otros. Debe ser el talento. Tarde más de treinta años para darme cuenta que todos poseemos una mente literaria y que dicha cosa no para de generar narrativa. Eso es biología. Fascinante, además.

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Issue 3 | Spring 2014

Mar 1, 2014

Your Impossible Voice #3 features new work from award-winning Cuban writer, editor, and screenwriter Francisco García González, novelist and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Susan Daitch, writer, poet, and filmmaker Lonely Christopher, and Gilberto Owen National Prize winner Vivian Abenshushan, and more.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”

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