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,…

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…

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…