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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…