Keywords: Life, Voyage, Animality, Nature, Meaning, Love, International Poetry.
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Gina Saraceni
Spanish | English
Translated from the Spanish by Rowena Hill
Foreword by Rafael Castillo Zapata
Epilogue by Betina Barrios Ayala
The edition includes images
2022
Hardcover | 214 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Geography classes
taught me
to imagine the world.
In an atlas
I looked for the countries,
the seas, the deserts,
and I wondered
how such immensity
could fit
on a page.
- Gina Saraceni
"This is a book of love in many senses: of the loving memory of the ancestral roots of the family house, of loving exaltation before the existential plenitude of animals, of loving veneration and celebration of the body in the fever of its delights; and love sometimes has the strength to create a myth, to produce a story that cannot be other than legendary, fabulous, earthly as well as extraterrestrial, fantastic, mysterious."
- Rafael Castillo Zapata
Gina Saraceni (Caracas, 1966). Poet, researcher, and critic. Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and Titular Professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. She has written and published recognized critical works and poetry collections. Also, she has translated some of Venezuela’s best-known voices into Italian as Yolanda Pantin and Rafael Cadenas.