Ugly Duckling Presse, chapbook
Publication Date: November 15, 2024
Translated by: Rebeca Alderete Baca
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How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to relieve the individual’s fear of repercussions in her home country, fragments that dream of becoming ruins of a present still unfolding against the systems of power, (the) body, language or all the systems.
Natasha Tiniacos is a poet, literary translator, and scholar from Maracaibo, Venezuela, living in the U.S. after being granted political asylum. She is the author of Historia privada de un etcétera (Libros del fuego), Mujer a fuego lento (Equinoccio) as well as the Spanish translator of Gabriel Dozal’s The Border Simulator. Her poetry and translations can be found in The Baffler and Fence. She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the U.S. Department of State Office of Cultural Affairs. She has worked as a poet in residence in Campo Air (Uruguay), the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, and Vermont Studio Center. She holds an MFA from New York University and is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center.
