Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk
Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk
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About the Book
Philosopher-poet Rocío Ágreda Piérola’s Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk is full of ghostly traces, smudged lines from the past turned into new forms. References to writers like Héctor Viel Temperley and Dante, rewritings of Biblical verses, redraftings of personal memory, and forays into history with the Spanish conquistadors provide the scaffolding for these poems, which probe the question of how to create meaning from solitude and silence. In this bilingual edition, Jessica Sequeira has deftly translated Ágreda Piérola’s sensuous language populated by animals, parts of the body, and the physical stuff of childhood.
Author
Rocío Ágreda Piérola
Rocío Ágreda Piérola (Cochabamba, 1981) studied philosophy and literature. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Peru and Chile, and she has collaborated with the Bolivian publishing projects “Género aburrido” and “Lenguanegra.” In 2017 she published the poetry collection Detritus (Maki_Naria), and is currently working on a manuscript called Quetiapina 400mg.
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Jessica Sequeira
Jessica Sequeira has published A Luminous History of the Palm (Sublunary Editions), A Furious Oyster (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Rhombus and Oval (What Books Press) and Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age (Zero Books), along with many translations. She was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclán for her version of Sara Gallardo’s Land of Smoke (Pushkin Press). Currently she is a PhD candidate in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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I dream of a man from Kiev reading Spinoza in prison while illiterate men ride camels in the eye of the desert and on the bank in the shadow of being everyone contemplates a wasteland of symbols called philosophy sueño a un hombre de Kiev leyendo a Spinoza en la cárcel mientras hombres iletrados acamellonan en el ojo del desierto y en la ribera a la sombra del ser se contemplan todos un páramo de símbolos llamado filosofía