Description
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "This collection begins with the break in family origin and that circumstance amplifies, as if in expansive waves, to other realms, such as nation, world, and language." —Jacobo Sefamí
"LITANE is full of searches, quests: some are spiritual, looking upward, looking back, always questioning the dubious hierarchies of the sacred. Longing is usually a manifestation of reverence; here, though, the revered is rarely innocent." —Robin Myers
"From the moment I first came into contact with Alejandro's poetry, it impressed me—something here is taken to its furthest consequences: a certain overlapping of planes of language and planes of reality that, on the one hand, depict a landscape or a physical environment, and on the other hand, sketch out the distinct nervure of mental landscapes that eventually converge into a space, into a Mexico, into a city that is in some sense derealized." —Raúl Zurita
Author Bio
Alejandro Tarrab (Mexico, 1972) can already be counted among the most provocative and fascinating of his generation. His poetry collections include Litane (2006, 2007, 2009), Degenerativa (2010, 2009 Gilberto Owen National Prize for Literature), and Caída del búfalo sin nombre: Ensayo sobre el suicidio (2015, 2016). He has received grants from Mexico's National Fund for Literature and the Arts in the Young Artists' category (2004-2005 and 2006- 2007).
Author City: Mexico City MEX
Clare Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Louisville, where she teaches poetry and translation. She received a 2010 NEA Translation Grant to work with Natalia Toledo's poetry. The resulting work, The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (Phoneme Media), was short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. Her translation of Alejandro Tarrab's LITANE was published by Cardboard House Press in 2017, her translation of Mario Montalbetti's LANGUAGE IS A REVOLVER FOR TWO was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018, and her translation of Enriqueta Lunez's NEW MOON was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2019.
Author City: USA