«Similarly, my translation of Guatemalan/Garifuna poet Wingston González's No Budu Please happened thanks to the great editor and translator JD Pluecker, who understood why Wingston's work was so important and thought that I would be a good person to translate his beautifully eccentric translingual poetry.»
By Words Without Borders, may, 2020
«Cuatro poemas en la revista Temporales, editada por el MFA de Escritura Creativa en Español de la New York University».
Sel. del autor, coor. ed. de Lila Zemborain
Revista Temporales, mayo, 2020
«Guatemalan poet Wingston González was supposed to spend a week in New York City in mid-April, presenting his latest work at different venues. After the pandemic cancelled his trip, he started experimenting with something new: live poetry readings via Zoom.»
By Emilia Otte
Pavement Pieces, april, 2020
«El poeta en Tapachula, durante el Encuentro Transfronterizo con estudiantes normalistas del sur y el norte de México; septiembre 2019.»
Edición de Róger Lindo
Barracuda Literaria, noviembre, 2019
«I met the Garifuna poet Wingston González in the fall of 2013 when I was living in Berlin and he was passing through for a poetry festival. We ended up collaborating on the translation featured here and the years passed. Earlier this year, I was overjoyed to see that Ugly Duckling Presse had published a book of his poetry. I’m happy to add “Whiskey against the Rage Machine” to his body of work now available in English.»
Written by Wingston González
Translated from the Spanish by Priscilla Posada
The Brooklyn Rail, september, 2019
«Urayoán Noel has translated Garifuna poet Wingston González. I have too. His translation was for Ugly Duckling Presse (UDP). Mine was for Asymptote and Simon Fraser University. He grew up in a Spanish-language environment, yet speaking English. I did too, sort of. He’s a poet. I tried to be one. He’s puertorriqueño. I’m guatemalteco. He’s got a Ph.D. Yo no. We both like hip-hop. The three of us—Wingston included.»
By José García Escobar
Asymptote Journal, march, 2019
«I thought about this a lot while reading Wingston González’s No Budu Please, translated by Urayoán Noel, which not only calls into question the relationship between the original and its translation, but also that between the author and their mother tongue.»
By Alexis Almeida
Kenyon Review, march, 2019
«Movement transforms meaning through its folds/unfolds. Return to the site of your footmark in a puddle. Swirl what you’ve already displaced until what was disturbed, shook-up into watery suspension now makes a new song, and you might see something akin to what’s shaken-up into newness here.»
A review by Trish Hartland
Prank Magazine, november, 2018
«If I were to describe Wingston González as a poet, I’d say he’s an unusual poet. Scratch that. To be more precise, the fractured aesthetics, the cadence, the triplets, the vertiginous narrative found in Wingston’s poetry, can only be summoned by the unusual artistic upbringing he had. Born in Livingston, brought up on Garífuna culture, traditional Guatemalan education, classical literature, and hip-hop music, Wingston stands as an undeniably original and musical wordsmith—utterly unique within the tradition of Guatemalan literature.»
By José García Escobar
Asymptote Journal, august, 2018