Ojiva / Warhead
Creator: Néstor Mendoza
Title: Ojiva / Warhead
Publisher: Editorial Pulpo
Date: 2024
Language: Spanish
Description: "... 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 like a gentle yet persistent force, echoing the age-old verse urging us to confront darkness until it changes or disappears. It fails to teach us how to seek comfort in fading echoes. But it aims to help, both itself and us, find peace amid life's enforced lessons." (Jean Alberto Rodriguez-Torres) "Ojiva evokes the shape of a projectile. At the same time, it recalls other words and images: we have mentioned the eye, but also an ovum, a concave hunger, a fissure, the ovoid of an explosion. This imprecision signals what unfolds at the margins of meaning and intent. Thus, in this poem, referentiality is fragmented. Alongside the devastation at its core, language itself is gradually deconstructed." (Marta Jazmín García, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)
Subject: Literature, poetry, Venezuela, Néstor Mendoza
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External reference
Relation:
Review by Guillermo Cerceau for Latin American Literature Today.
Review by Gina Saraceni for Trópico Absoluto.
Selection of poems from Ojiva for Poesía magazine, curated and introduced by Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken.
Interview with Néstor Mendoza on Ojiva and Taller Blanco.
"Y no tanto la muerte," by Néstor Mendoza (videopoem).
Identifier: LIT0011
Collection: Poetry
Tags: Literature, Néstor Mendoza, poetry, Venezuela
Citation: Néstor Mendoza, Ojiva / Warhead, Editorial Pulpo, 2024, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/168