Poems Read in London

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Larisa Chaddick and William Rowe. With POEMS READ IN LONDON, Magdalena Chocano delivers a new collection of searing poetic illuminations. Destroying "with pleasure that which clouds us," her poems are the scrutinous paths of skepticism, engaging paradox so as to expose the irony of power. Her work is as mystical as it is questioning, collecting and redefining the objects of experience that one might see past "the fraudulent screen" and grasp, if only briefly, "that self / remote sphere / claimed by no one." POEMS READ IN LONDON traverses landscapes cool and luminous, tangible and abstract, exploring with fearlessness the "supreme nonexistence of light."