Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Dan Bellm. Bilingual Edition. DESCRIPTION OF A FLASH OF COBALT BLUE, Jorge Esquinca's moving elegy for his father, is a journey toward the Pacific coast of Mexico and through the Parisian cityscape, through memory and imagination, grief and love. A narrative poem in twenty-four linked passages, it is one of Esquinca's most intimate and evocative works. DESCRIPTION OF A FLASH OF COBALT BLUE appears here for the first time in English.

"DESCRIPTION OF A FLASH is an intimate experience—the reader is allowed in on personal memories, often rendered in imagistic bursts, and allowed access to the poet's personal pantheon of writers. Bellm's translations are in keeping with this intimacy..."—Kelsi Vanada, Rain Taxi