Annapurna: The Empirical Mountain (Fables of a Quasi-Metaphysical Civil Servant) - Igor Barreto

Editorial: Alliteration/ 2021/ ISBN: 9781737853749/ 83 paginas/ Bilingüe/ Traducción: Rowena Hill

The mountain freezes a man, taking a photo of himin an eternal posture.- Igor Barreto“Barreto’s work, throughout its different stages delivers a poetry in dialogue with materials outside or at the limit of the literary, which enter the poetic field without losing their singularity, implying a questioning and a rarefaction of the very idea of poetry. It is an oeuvre-archive, where journalistic texts coexist with oral testimony, technological references with the lexicons of the world of fighting cocks or climbers of eight-thousanders, reports with translations, geographical data with references to film which acquire a subjective dimension.”- Gina SaraceniIgor Barreto (San Fernando de Apure, 1952). Poet, publisher, translat… (cont.)