Rotondaro, Alejandra: Absent Territories

Scrambler Books, paperback

Publication Date: March 15, 2026

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Absent Territories showcases a new Venezuelan voice in this historical moment that manages to propose poetic forms and structures necessary for the reconstruction of a country’s imagery – and that of several generations – that moves the universal and the regional with the same intensity in it's images. It is a poetic voice that speaks of an "I" from the collective wound, in the indeterminate space inhabited by the migrant and the Caribbean saudade, which makes it worthy of the baton in our contemporary Venezuelan poetry.

Winner of the First Annual Poetry Prize from Digopalabra.txt and published by Scrambler Books this edition is in 3 languages - Spanish, French and English.

Alejandra Rotondaro (Venezuela) is a philologist by training and a cultural manager based in France. She has participated in various writing workshops focused on poetry. This is her first publication.

Camila Urioste (Bolivia). In 2017, she won the Bolivian National Novel Prize for her first novel, Soundtrack (Editorial 3600). She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Her thesis was a Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel called Manqapacha Delight, published in Bolivia in August of 2024. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2025.

Daymar Toussaint (Venezuela). Poet and translator. She holds a degree in Applied Foreign Languages and a Master’s in Research in Hispanic Studies (Literature, Languages, and Foreign Civilizations). She resides in Lyon, France.