The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
Time: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., PDT
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, CA 90291
Margarita Pintado Burgos will read from her book Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat as part of the “Translating Latin American Poetics” event at Beyond Baroque Literary Center. Pintado Burgos will read alongside other featured authors including Frank Báez, Gloria E. Alvarez, and Carlo Acevedo. The readings will start at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by poet and translator Anthony Seidman, as well as book signings. The event is free and will be in-person and Live on YouTube.
About the book:
Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat brings into sharp relief the limits of our gaze. It shows us what it is to escape the mirror and move beyond mirages. Margarita Pintado Burgos invites us to ponder the impasse while showing us ways to see better, to break the habit of lying, and to confront images along with language.
With devastating clarity, Pintado Burgos’s poems, presented in both Spanish and English, give voice to the world within and beyond sight: the plants, the trees, the birds, the ocean waves, the fruit forgotten in the kitchen, the house’s furniture. Light takes on new dimensions to expose, manipulate, destroy, and nourish. Alejandra Quintana Arocho’s sensitive English translation renders the stark force of these poems without smoothing over the language of the original.
