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<em><strong>Historia privada de un etcétera</strong></em>

Historia privada de un etcétera

A collection of poems where reality, language, and virtuality intertwine. The work features a visceral and feminine poetry that alludes to deeply…
<em><strong>Contracanto: poesía reunida (1979-2011)</strong></em>

Contracanto: poesía reunida (1979-2011)

"In Leonardo Padrón's poetry, the unexpected reigns. The reader goes from surprise to surprise, dazzled by the appearances of the adjective "unusual"…
<em><strong>Trae tu espalda para hacer mi mesa</strong></em>

Trae tu espalda para hacer mi mesa

"Yau has an extraordinary talent for distilling words and transforming them into almost physical aesthetic experiences. The poems in this collection…
Litoral central

Litoral central

For Caribbean culture, sunlight is an energy that dispels the "I" and the world. Under that intense light, madness and fragmentation ensue. Juan Luis…
<em><strong>Lugares abandonados: antología personal</strong></em>

Lugares abandonados: antología personal

A serene gaze confirms the permanence of the ruin, its beauty, and the shadow of what is no longer. Each word has been measured in a frame that…
<em><strong>Adriático</strong></em>

Adriático

In Adriático, poetry unites the separated islands and provokes new imaginary cartographies, based on the symbolic synthesis of distant and distinct…
<em><strong>Outside texts = Textos por fuera</strong></em>

Outside texts = Textos por fuera

Outside Texts is a collection of poems that interrogate themselves, the Spanish language, the poetic self, and the author's personal geographies…
<em><strong>Uno, en verdad, hace lo que puede</strong></em>

Uno, en verdad, hace lo que puede

The title of this book comes from a verse that, perhaps, can serve as a synthesis of what I’ve tried to do in poetry—something that has been present…
<em><strong>Intensive care / Cuidados intensivos</strong></em>

Intensive care / Cuidados intensivos

This book’s title suggests a vocation, an attitude toward language, and oblique reflections that address human fate as much as the most tangible…
<em><strong>El cangrejo ermitaño: antología poética</strong></em>

El cangrejo ermitaño: antología poética

Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza (Caracas, Venezuela, 1962) is an unavoidable voice in Venezuelan poetry. His precise language, stripped of rhetoric, draws us…
<em><strong>Rasgos comunes: antología de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX</strong></em>

Rasgos comunes: antología de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX

If there is a dominant literary genre in Venezuela, it is undoubtedly poetry. A reading of the twentieth century reveals an admirable thirst for…
<em><strong>Wild West</strong></em>

Wild West

In Wild West, the author explores the unprotected civic space and the abandonment brought about by a State that, perilously, has withdrawn from the…
<em><strong>La ciencia de las despedidas</strong></em>

La ciencia de las despedidas

Several had their hands tied. All showed signs of severe trauma—evidence of blunt force injuries, such as those caused by mallets, and wounds made by…
<strong><em>Dear parent or guardian</em></strong>

Dear parent or guardian

A body just beginning to define itself discovers the inadequacy of imposed language. Though it rebels and implodes, the machinery it opposes is a…
<em><strong>Uprising / Alzamiento</strong></em>

Uprising / Alzamiento

"Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland." Ariel Gore, author of Hexing…
<em><strong>La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)</strong></em>

La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)

Poetry anthology of María Auxiliadora Álvarez, edited by Juan Carlos Abril.
<strong><em>En mi boca se abrirá la noche</em></strong>

En mi boca se abrirá la noche

"The author began writing this poetry collection ten years ago, following the murder of two women (mother and daughter) in Caracas. The news coverage…
<em><strong>Ojiva / Warhead</strong></em>

Ojiva / Warhead

"... Dear reader, I confide in you: this warhead isn't just a path strewn with obstacles, but rather a heartfelt farewell—a tribute to cherished…
<em><strong>Luces altas, luces de peligro</strong></em>

Luces altas, luces de peligro

"Gladys Mendía has tossed into the air the coin she has been minting for fifteen years. This time, the imprint of El cantar de los manglares lands…
<em><strong>La desesperanza</strong></em>

La desesperanza

"If we had to summarize in a few words what Santiago Acosta presents to us through his verses, we would have to say that we are faced with a…
<em><strong>Restitución de la lengua</strong></em>

Restitución de la lengua

"What remains beneath the tongue after a conversation? What endures beyond writing that dutifully adheres to grammar, morality, and the aesthetic…
<em><strong>Study of the Raft</strong></em>

Study of the Raft

"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an…
<em><strong>Cosmonauta</strong></em>

Cosmonauta

"Every cosmonaut is, at heart, a castaway. It is enough to imagine that vast expanse we cowardly call outer space—a vastness that resists both our…
<em><strong>Against the Regime of the Fluent</strong></em>

Against the Regime of the Fluent

How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you…
<em><strong>Aunque me extinga</strong></em>

Aunque me extinga

"A poetic song of migration, uprootedness, and love as resistance against pain and silence. Aunque me extinga is a book written from the perspective…
<strong><em>Textos por fuera</em></strong>

Textos por fuera

"The poem, the verses—a play of forms, inscriptions. Definitions, abrupt exits and entrances. Opposites: the outside, the inside. Interior/exterior:…