Against the Regime of the Fluent

Creator: Natasha Tiniacos (author); Rebeca Alderete Baca (translator)

Title: Against the Regime of the Fluent

Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse

Date: 2024

Language: English

Description: 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 relieve the individual’s fear of repercussions in her home country, fragments that dream of becoming ruins of a present still unfolding against the systems of power, (the) body, language or all the systems (Ugly Ducking Press).

Subject: Venezuela, poetry, exile, asylum, body, memory, language, resistance, displacement, survival, loss, Natasha Tiniacos

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External reference

Relation: "Natasha Tiniacos’s writing consists of a tight knitting of words that refer to a gamut of sensations, ideas, objects; such a knitting is the only possible way to approach the solidity, the concreteness of the experience she wants to incarnate in her poems. Hence, the disparity of registers, the sudden changes of tone, the unruly grammar that at times takes possession of her language. Hunger, touch, deprivation, mother, longing, love, body, house, immersion, solitude, image, remembrance, are sewn in these texts through a subtle, almost invisible thread that forces us readers, in a constant challenge to intelligibility, to move back and forth between the tangibility of things and the ineffability of passion, of suffering, of homelessness, preventing us from settling for the 'narrative,' the 'story' in order to remain in the tense space of words that neither explain nor trivialize their complex interrelation. Against both the 'regime of the body' and the 'regime of the fluent,' Tiniacos’s poetry is a singular example of writing itself becoming (the) experience." (Luis Miguel Isava) "If we are made of dust, / it is the dust that is left after the stampede.' I feel unshaped by these lines in a way I would like to remember for a long time. In the spirit of being direct, like many of these poems are, this collection and their colloquial translations shattered me, I who did not know I was glass. This book is for the soft animal inside, the one who grieves and the one who survives." (Lara Mimosa Montes)

Identifier: LIT0023

Collection: Poetry

Tags: asylum, body, displacement, exile, language, loss, memory, Natasha Tiniacos, poetry, resistance, survival, Venezuela

Citation: Natasha Tiniacos (author); Rebeca Alderete Baca (translator), Against the Regime of the Fluent, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/88