[11/01/26] Cadenas, Martha Luisa Hernández: Ant Days

Ugly Duckling Presse, chapbook

Translated by Camila Valle

Publication Date: November 1, 2026

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Set in a family home in Havana, Ant Days is for the fortunes found in drawers and gestures. Through the figures of the ants, the mother, the grandmother, and the mysterious muchacha, Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas keeps alive that obsession, memory, and eternal ritual of being young and searching. Writing through bug bites, disenchantment, antidotes, and dreams, she savors the whole world with the tip of her tongue.