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Adriático
In Adriático, poetry unites the separated islands and provokes new imaginary cartographies, based on the symbolic synthesis of distant and distinct places that maintain their beautiful original names and live on in memory and affection. Each name is…
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 must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to…
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 of migration, foreignness, and displacement, woven together through desire and love as barricades…
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" in verse that is also unusual, but still constrained by speech. With him, metaphor is dressed for a…
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 gaze and our imagination. And in the middle of it, place a human body, covered by a second skin as…
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 with reflection, depth, and conciseness into the everyday, examining lost places, the experience of…
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 human themes, yet is deeply filtered through reading, reflection, and refined words. (Publisher's…
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 transformations of the poet’s country. This discreet phenomenology is hemmed in by pathos—passion and…
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 piercing weapons. Experts believe the 27 individuals were restrained, systematically executed, and…
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 formidable tour de force: the paradox of writing about our desperate present without restraints or…
La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)
Poetry anthology of María Auxiliadora Álvarez, edited by Juan Carlos Abril.
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 face down, revealing a poetry that is clearer—just as the title, Luces altas luces de peligro (High…
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 dignifies the invoked image and the word that names it. Dignity in the broken bones of the mother, of the…
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 memories, to names penned on paper and held close to the heart. It's not a sturdy breakwater; it's more…
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 within and outside of Venezuela and Argentina. Animating the texts in this book is the experience of…
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 modernity and cosmopolitanism. One of the main reasons for presenting the expansive vision offered by…
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 traditions that shape the poem? It is that negative residue, that newfound force of what refuses to be…
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 inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations,…
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 spark a sensation, a taste, a space, and without us realizing it, they take us to unexpected and…
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 in the collections I’ve published for a little over thirty years. Life has now gifted me sixty years,…