Quase Flanders, Quase Extremadura

Andrés Ajens / Erín Moure

Chilean poet Andrés Ajens twists language open: his poems stutter, yelp, point, shudder, laugh, lacerate, disobey. They insist on life, the starry addition to life.

Erín Moure brings us a poetry and poetics that we would otherwise not see. She translates Ajens into English with grace and febrility.

Andrés Ajens was born in Concepción, Chile in 1961. He has published several books of poetry, essays and translations. He lives in Santiago.

Erín Moure won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1988 for her book Furious, and has been nominated four other times for the GG. She has also been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize three times, twice for translation and once for her own work, and with Robert Majzels was nominated for the Governor General's Award for translation. She lives in Montreal.

$16.00

Este bienestar, tibio / This Well-Being, Warm

Argel Corpus

Mexico City writer Argel Corpus' first publication in Canada. Bienestar is a 40 page chapbook of sensual imagery and deftly wrought traditional forms. Corpus teaches at UNAM and participated in The Banff Centre's 2005 International Translation Residency.

$15.00

Fronteras / Borders

Salvador Alanis

Izquierda is proud to present its first perfect bound book. Printed offset in a billingual edition, Smyth sewn, with French flaps. 40 pages. The press is thrilled to enter the perfect bound world, though it will keep its ties to chapbooks, creating in both mediums in the near future.

Alanis' debut publication in Canada uses spare lyrics and a far-reaching eye, exploring landscape, history and borderlands with ferocity and grace. He is an award winning Mexico City poet, and currently operates K Ediciones, a multimedia communications company which also publishes classical and contemporary Mexican texts.

$15.00

Isadora Blue

Fred Wah

Hurricane Isadora hit the coast of the Yucatán in 2002. Intricate, curious and deftly written, Wah´s suite of poems explores the borderlands / fronteras of natural disaster, culture and language.

Wah is a Governor General's Award winning poet from Canada.
Isadora Blue was printed offset on acid-free paper. The cover photograph is by Eric Jervaise.

$15.00

Fire Lookout

Bren Simmers

A suite of ten beautifully written Ghazals, Simmers quietly maps the resonant landscape of central Alberta´s mountain wilderness.

Simmers is a Canadian poet who lived for five summers at Cline Lookout.

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Mérida

Andrés Acosta & José Teodoro

Sharp and dark short fiction in six parts, written in tandem, published bilingually. Described by the authors as literary tag-team wrestling.

Acosta is an award winning fiction writer from Mexico City; Teodoro is a playwright from Canada. The cover photograph is by Laura Barrón.

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Cinco noches en la Habana

Maleea Acker & Andrés Acosta

Poetry and prose, a exchange in Spanish and English, in Mexico and in Cuba.

Acker and Acosta are the co-founders of Izquierda.

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