This book doesn’t set out to confirm anything the reader hasn’t already suspected—but it does so from an unexpected angle. What is a diary when it exceeds its own form? And what is a novel when it resists being one? It is not an intimate diary,…

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…