Keywords: Language, Experience, Geography, Multimedia, Latin-American Poetry.
ANNAPURNA
The Empirical Mountain
(Fables of a Quasi-Metaphysical Civil Servant)
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Igor Barreto
Spanish | English
Translated from the Spanish by Rowena Hill
Foreword by Gina Saraceni
2021
Paperback | 83 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
The mountain freezes a man, taking a photo of him
in an eternal posture.
- Igor Barreto
“Barreto’s work, throughout its different stages delivers a poetry in dialogue with materials outside or at the limit of the literary, which enter the poetic field without losing their singularity, implying a questioning and a rarefaction of the very idea of poetry. It is an oeuvre-archive, where journalistic texts coexist with oral testimony, technological references with the lexicons of the world of fighting cocks or climbers of eight-thousanders, reports with translations, geographical data with references to film which acquire a subjective dimension.”
- Gina Saraceni
Igor Barreto (San Fernando de Apure, 1952). Poet, publisher, translator, and professor. His aesthetic vision has made him one of the most vital voices in contemporary Venezuelan poetry. Juxtaposing different techniques, media, times, and landscapes, he is an authentic explorer and devotee of language.