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…

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…

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…