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Venezuela country of absences
Venezuela country of absences is a series of GIFs created by Andrea Dudier for Instagram as an act of catharsis. She uses the GIF format analogously to poetry; as a revolutionary visual tool for liberation through images of decomposition. These 6-8…
Lugares abandonados: antología personal
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…
Adriático
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)
Poetry anthology of María Auxiliadora Álvarez, edited by Juan Carlos Abril.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Textos por fuera
"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…