[11/01/25] Samohod, Dalmacia Ruíz-Rosas / Rubin, Judah (tr.): Red Lip Peril

Ugly Duckling Presse, paperback

Publication Date: November 1, 2025

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"Red Lip Peril's abject violence animates missing histories while at the same time showing us how to live in our perpetual state of decay. " —Daniel Borzutzky

Red Lip Peril brings Peruvian poet Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas’s searing, corporeal, political poems of the 1970s and 1980s into English for the first time. Harnessing and writing back against state violence, against amnesia, against complacency, and into desire, these poems speak a Lima on the brink, caught in the landslide of history, where the poet is “still shut up remembering ’77 / when for screaming my dreams aloud they beat me”.

Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod (Lima, 1957) is the author of the poetry books Secuestro en el jardín de las rosas, Baile, Conjunto de objetos encontrados detestables pensamientos de jovenes ingeniosos, Roce en roq, Palacio de Justicia, and El son del jubilado. She studied literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. She worked as a journalist in current affairs magazines such as La Tortuga, in political weeklies such as Sí and Oiga, and was co-editor of the cultural supplement Asalto al cielo. Since the 1980s she has been a photographer of the underground rock scene. She has produced radio programs such as Ave Roq and Kuntur Roq.

Judah Rubin is the editor of A Perfect Vacuum. His translation of Rodrigo Quijano’s writing, An Inherent Tear, was published by Wendy’s Subway.