Notes on a Healing
A literary procedure of healing that transforms pain and illness into poetic art, documenting the intimate experience of body and mind.
Book Reviews
Cuban poetry
Book Reviews
‘Sinalectas’: Verbal Artifact for Viewing
A poetic laboratory where word and image confront and balance each other to distill perception, eliminating ornamentation until only the tension between the visible and its void remains.
Essays
On this Journey Toward Death
In Baquero’s work, death is a constant presence and a central theme that fuels the imagination as a form of resistance against oblivion.
Essays
Lines of Alamar: ‘El Contragolpe’, Reading Notes
With a prosody of rubble, Juan Carlos Flores turned the horizontality of collapse into the only possible place to found an epic.
Inquisitions
Edwin Reyes Zamora: “Every ‘renewal’ movement starts with destruction”
‘Psicofonía’, a book conceived as a fragmentary and spectral device where language confronts its own limits to reveal the unspeakable.
Inquisitions
Zulema Gutiérrez: “I believe in the profoundly liberating possibility of poetry without a self”
Writing like disassembling a body: conversation with Zulema Gutiérrez about her latest book.
Inquisitions
Ana G. Ramos: “Modern poetry is facing its own irrelevance”
Ana G. Ramos talks to us about the agony of modern poetry: an irremediable glitch in the matrix of human irrelevance.
Book Reviews
Civitas and the Periphery: Poetry as Urban Cartography
Youre Merino’s ‘Asentamiento en la civilidad’ paints a poetic map of urban resistance, dismantling socialist myths with sharp verses.
Bookspel
Cuban poetry attempts to enter a Miami prison
A volume of Cuban poetry, an anthology of uncomfortable verses, remains confiscated in a Miami-Dade prison, destined for reggaeton artist Chocolate MC.