Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours

Auteur

Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing and The Book of Wounded Sparrows. He is the founder and director of the Literature and Arts Festival and VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas. His frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches literature and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. Natalia Treviño is a translator of Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours. A poet and writer of fiction and nonfiction, Treviño is an assistant professor of English at Northwest Vista College and holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska. Born in Mexico City, Treviño has lived in San Antonio, Texas, for most of her life.

Texte du rabat

In Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey through borders and disquiet, love and longing, the unsaid and the unsayable. The perpetual search for wholeness is confounded and shadowed by all the brutal things intent on breaking us: distance, time, language. In these poems, the lyrical and concrete intertwine--complicating our notions of immigration, imagination, and identity. Culminating in a long poem that closes the collection, Las Horas Imposibles is an inevitable revelation of vulnerability amid quiet violence.