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"The poem, the verses—a play of forms, inscriptions. Definitions, abrupt exits and entrances. Opposites: the outside, the inside. Interior/exterior: words, silences. To walk, to retrace, to affirm/deny. To be and not to be. But to be. Ultimately, one…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 focused more on sensationalism than on denouncing violence, as photos of the two women’s burned…
La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)
Poetry anthology of María Auxiliadora Álvarez, edited by Juan Carlos Abril.
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 the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness.…
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 shadow that spreads—an unanswerable question and, ultimately, a sentence. In Dear Parent or Guardian,…
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…
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 city. From this perspective, the work reflects on the destruction caused by the collapse of social…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…