Keywords: Poetry, International Poetry, Intimacy, Landscapes, Everyday life, Minimal human life.
THE DOMESTIC BLISS OF PLANTS
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Ezequiel N.
English-Spanish
Foreword by Adalber Salas Hernández
Translated by Arthur Malcolm Dixon
2025
Hardcover | 82 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Paperback | 80 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
After a long time walking
we reached the view
of a hidden lake.
We weren’t planning
to stay there.
The sweet leaves
of the larches
over the frozen water.
— Ezequiel N.
Ezequiel’s poetry feeds on the contrast between outside and inside. This book boasts many landscapes, but their vastness is tamed by a human scale. Just like in “After a long time walking”—whose title, also its first line, highlights its lack of pretense—the view of the lake, the larches, and the clouds—elements that, in other hands, might reveal a pompous majesty or a sleep-deprived romanticism—surrender their magnitude to the other, tiny view of breadcrumbs on the palm of a hand. Suddenly, a vast expanse fits there, in that hand.
—Adalber Salas Hernández
EZEQUIEL N. was born in Argentina in 1990. He earned his undergraduate degree in Letters. He has lived in Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán, and Germany, and he currently resides in Buenos Aires. He was a fellow of the University of Cologne’s Latin American Studies Center and has participated in the FILBA-CCR and Enciende Bienal residencies, among others. He edited the volume En la casa-barco: Poesía reunida de Inés Aráoz (EDUNT, 2018). Since 2015, he has been the organizer of the Tucumán International Literature Festival (FILT). His writing has appeared in anthologies and journal issues from EMR, Blatt & Ríos, Notanpüan, Gog & Magog, and Hablar de Poesía, among other outlets. He is the author of the poetry collection Estrellas al fondo del río (Aguacero, 2024). In 2024, he was declared the winner of the sixth annual Lugar Comun Poetry Contest.