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"In this brilliant bilingual anthology, William Archila creates a powerful and fiery poetics of exile, war, and, ultimately and brilliantly, survival."-Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award winner
From war-torn El Salvador to the streets of LA, Cancula / Dog Days is a bold, bilingual collection chronicling exile, memory, and resilience across borders.
William Archila's Cancula / Dog Days is a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry, The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger's Archaeology, two collections that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latin Poetry. Cancula, which means "dog days" in English, takes the reader on a poignant journey from the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s to the urban landscape of the US immigrant, revealing the turmoil and memory of the disempowered, the impoverished, and the displaced who struggle back home in Central America. In lyrical and often harrowing language, Archila unearths the vestiges of war and the exile's return in an elegy, the fragments of a myth, or a jazz riff. They come together like the bilateral symmetry of a volcano, and the result is the introduction to Archila's poetry for the Spanish reader.
"En esta brillante antologa bilinge, William Archila crea una poetica poderosa y apasionada del exilio, la guerra y, en ltima instancia y con maestra, la supervivencia."-Daniel Borzutzky, ganador del National Book Award
DesdeunEl Salvador devastado por la guerra hasta las calles de Los ngeles,Cancula / Dog Dayses unaantologabilingeaudaz,que narra el exilio, la memoria y la resiliencia a traves de las fronteras.
Cancula / Dog Daysde William Archila es una seleccin bilinge de sus dos primeros libros de poesa,El arte del exilioyLa arqueologadel sepulturero, dospoemariosque marcan el surgimiento de un nuevo referente en la poesa latina.Dog Days, que significa "cancula", lleva al lectora traves deun viaje conmovedor desdela agitacinen El Salvador en la decada de 1980 hasta el paisaje urbano del inmigrante en los Estados Unidos, revelando la angustia y la memoria de los marginados, los empobrecidos y los desplazados,que luchan porvolver a su hogar enCentroamerica. Con un lenguaje lrico y a menudo desgarrador, Archila desentierra los vestigios de la guerra y el regreso del exiliado en una elega,enlos fragmentos de un mito oenun riff de jazz.Estos seconjugan como la simetra de un volcn, y el resultado es lapresentacin dela poesa de Archilaallectorenespaol.
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"In this brilliant bilingual anthology, William Archila creates a powerful and fiery poetics of exile, war, and, ultimately and brilliantly, survival."-Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award winner
From war-torn El Salvador to the streets of LA, Cancula / Dog Days is a bold, bilingual collection chronicling exile, memory, and resilience across borders.
William Archila's Cancula / Dog Days is a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry, The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger's Archaeology, two collections that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latin Poetry. Cancula, which means "dog days" in English, takes the reader on a poignant journey from the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s to the urban landscape of the US immigrant, revealing the turmoil and memory of the disempowered, the impoverished, and the displaced who struggle back home in Central America. In lyrical and often harrowing language, Archila unearths the vestiges of war and the exile's return in an elegy, the fragments of a myth, or a jazz riff. They come together like the bilateral symmetry of a volcano, and the result is the introduction to Archila's poetry for the Spanish reader.
"En esta brillante antologa bilinge, William Archila crea una poetica poderosa y apasionada del exilio, la guerra y, en ltima instancia y con maestra, la supervivencia."-Daniel Borzutzky, ganador del National Book Award
DesdeunEl Salvador devastado por la guerra hasta las calles de Los ngeles,Cancula / Dog Dayses unaantologabilingeaudaz,que narra el exilio, la memoria y la resiliencia a traves de las fronteras.
Cancula / Dog Daysde William Archila es una seleccin bilinge de sus dos primeros libros de poesa,El arte del exilioyLa arqueologadel sepulturero, dospoemariosque marcan el surgimiento de un nuevo referente en la poesa latina.Dog Days, que significa "cancula", lleva al lectora traves deun viaje conmovedor desdela agitacinen El Salvador en la decada de 1980 hasta el paisaje urbano del inmigrante en los Estados Unidos, revelando la angustia y la memoria de los marginados, los empobrecidos y los desplazados,que luchan porvolver a su hogar enCentroamerica. Con un lenguaje lrico y a menudo desgarrador, Archila desentierra los vestigios de la guerra y el regreso del exiliado en una elega,enlos fragmentos de un mito oenun riff de jazz.Estos seconjugan como la simetra de un volcn, y el resultado es lapresentacin dela poesa de Archilaallectorenespaol.