{"product_id":"guardians-of-the-secret","title":"Guardians of the Secret","description":"\u003cp\u003eLila Zemborain's poetry collection translated from Spanish by the acclaimed poet and translator Rosa Alcalá. This collection power subverts paper: her words turn pages into films of blurred or incomplete images. The references are specific, but what is happening remains stubbornly a question defying the definitive answer except for what a reader is moved to speculate. Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLila Zemborain\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Argentine poet and critic who has lived in New York City since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eAbrete sésamo debajo del agua\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eUsted\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), \u003cem\u003eGuardianes del secreto\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eMalvas orquídeas del mar\u003c\/em\u003e (2004; published as \u003cem\u003eMauve Sea-Orchids\u003c\/em\u003e [2007]), \u003cem\u003eRasgado \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), and the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eArdores\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), and \u003cem\u003ePampa\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). Her work has been included in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eMujeres mirando al sur\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003ePoetas sudamericanas en USA\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eFinal de entrega. Antologíade poetás contra la violencia de género \u003c\/em\u003e(2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZemborain's poems, translated by Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre, have also appeared in several English-language anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eThe Light of the City and Sea. An Anthology of Suffolk County Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), and \u003cem\u003eCorresponding Voices \u003c\/em\u003e(2002); in the art catalogues \u003cem\u003eAlessandro Twombly \u003c\/em\u003e(2007) and Heidi McFall (2005); and in publications such as \u003cem\u003eEcopoetics, Rattapallas, The Brooklyn Rail, A Gathering of the Tribes, The Poetry Project Newsletter,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMandorla\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition, she has authored the book-length essay \u003cem\u003eGabriela Mistral. Una mujer sin rostro \u003c\/em\u003e(2002).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLila Zemborain is the director and editor of the Rebel Road series, and the curator of the KJCC Poetry Series at New York University, where she teaches creative writing in Spanish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning poet and translator, \u003cstrong\u003eRosa Alcalá\u003c\/strong\u003e has published several books of her own poems as well as translations of poetry by Latin American writers. \u003cem\u003eYOU\u003c\/em\u003e, her fourth poetry collection, was published by Coffee House Press in 2024. She has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award, a Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship from Harvard, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. Her book \u003cem\u003eSpit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña\u003c\/em\u003e was runner-up for the PEN Translation Award. Her poems and translations are featured in publications such as \u003cem\u003eHarper's, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and two volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Critical essays on her work appear in \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement; The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of our Time\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them\u003c\/em\u003e. Recently she served as a Guest Editor for the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series and is currently a Consulting Editor for the University of Chicago Press' Phoenix Poets Series. She holds the DeWetter Endowed Chair in Poetry at the University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526379065619,"sku":"9781934819050","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934819050ita.jpg?v=1785852183","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/guardians-of-the-secret","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}