Isabel Zapata

Empty Pool

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Produktbeschreibung

Neither essays nor prose poems, the pieces in Empty Pool propose a new genre: the essay poem. Vivid and restless, Zapata's mind ranges through motherhood, octopi, the Covid pandemic, photography, extinction, dogs, translation, birds, memory, recipes, reading aloud, and people who live as if they are "contestants in a sinister gossiptransmission contest organized by some telecommunications company." Each of these haunting, ephemeral, fragmentary and of- ten funny works, beautifully brought into English by Robin Myers, offers a unique and piercing amalgam of the intellectual energy and engagement of the essay and the verbal agility, silence, and ambiguity of poetry. Esther Allen

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rose Mary Salum
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9781942307532
• ISBN-10: 1942307535
• Artikelnr.: 74405734

Autorenporträt

Isabel Zapata was born in Mexico City in 1984. She studied political science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and philosophy at the New School for Social Research, in New York. Her work has been included in Mexican journals such as la Revista de la Universidad de México, Periódico de Poesía, and Letras Libres, among others; and international publications such as World Literature Today, The Common, Zyzzyva, and Ancrages (Canada). In 2015 she and four friends founded Ediciones Antílope with the motto"We make books that we'd want to read." Their catalog includes fiction, crónica, poetry, and essays. She received a 2016-17 grant from FONCA's Jóvenes Creadores, a prestigious government program supporting Mexican artists and writers.