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"[Santiago Papasquiaro] didn't believe in countries and the only borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics."--Roberto Bolano "Built from the collision of 'low' and 'high' culture--of police brutality and drunken ranting with Modernism and German phenomenology--it is a testament of resistance to political and artistic repression comparable to Ginsberg's 'Howl.'"--Cole Heinowitz Readers might recognize Mario Santiago Papasquiaro as the eccentric and renegade Ulises Lima in Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives. Fierce and visceral, Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic is canonical to Infrarealism, a poem that renders poetry inseparable from politics. It was published originally as part of the posthumous collection Jeta de Santo: Antologia Poetica, 1974--1997. This is the first widely available English translation of Santiago Papasquiaro's work. the thesis & antithesis of the world meet like 1 white-hot meteor & 1 UFO in distress & inexplicably they greet each other: I'm the 1 who embossed on the back of his denim jacket the sentence: The nucleus of my solar system is Adventure Mario Santiago Papasquiaro founded the radical Infrarealist poetry movement with Roberto Bolano. During his lifetime, Santiago published two books of poetry, Beso eterno (1995) and Aullido de Cisne (1996). He died in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1998. Cole Heinowitz is an associate professor of literature at Bard College. Alexis Graman is a painter and translator living in New York.
* We will be looking to expand our publicity for this title to include venues that have written about or published excerpts of Roberto Bolano's work or other translations, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Quarterly Conversation, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The London Review of Books, HTML Giant, Publisher's Weekly, Bookslut and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. * We will seek to promote this title in newsletters and websites targeting independent bookstores, such as Shelf Awareness, Pacific Northwest Booksellers, Indiebound, and through reviews and excerpts in bookstore newsletters and blogs, such as Powell's Books in Portland and Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. * We will promote this book through interviews with Cole Heinowitz in The Poetry Foundation blog, Words Without Borders, Poetry Society of America, and BOMB Magazine. * We will promote this title through social media like Facebook & twitter and on the author's and translators' pages on our website.
About the Author
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro was born Jose Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City, 1953). In 1975, he and Roberto Bolano founded the radical Infrarealist poetry movement. During his lifetime, Santiago published two books of poetry, Beso eterno (1995) and Aullido de Cisne (1996). Santiago died in Mexico City in 1998. Cole Heinowitz is the author of three books of poetry, Daily Chimera (Incommunicado Press, 1995), Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour Press, 2002), and The Rubicon (The Rest Press, 2008). Her poetry has appeared in journals including Fence, HOW2, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poker, Factorial!, 6X6, Highway Robbery, Mirage 4 Period(ical), and Clock. Heinowitz is also the author of the critical study, Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Other critical writings have appeared in the journals European Romantic Review and Revista Hispanica Moderna, and in the collections Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary (Rodopi Press) and "Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic:" Essays in British and American Romanticism (Romantic Circles Praxis Series). Heinowitz received a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. In 2000-1, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Seville, Spain. Heinowitz lives in Boiceville, NY and is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College.
Reviews
Papasquiaro was prolific, and Advice may be his best-known work--although until Cole Heinowitz's wonderfully propulsive version it had never been translated into English. Papasquiaro's poem, like much of Bolano's fiction, is a kind of nightmare spent in the company of one's best friends. --Robyn Creswell, Paris Review Santiago's distress, derangement, and rages extend from a deep faith in poetry and its ability to both inscribe and incite new perceptions. --Zach Savich, the Kenyon Review Best known as the inspiration for the irascible Ulises Lima in Roberto Bolano's famed novel The Savage Detectives, Santiago Papasquiaro is a formidable poet in his own right. His lyricism borders on the profane, with its bawdy metaphors and extensive use of vernacular imagery, often favoring an "ugly," highly visceral beauty over the prim imagery found in more formal work. --Library Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781933517681
Author Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 85g
* We will be looking to expand our publicity for this title to include venues that have written about or published excerpts of Roberto Bolano's work or other translations, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Quarterly Conversation, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The London Review of Books, HTML Giant, Publisher's Weekly, Bookslut and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. * We will seek to promote this title in newsletters and websites targeting independent bookstores, such as Shelf Awareness, Pacific Northwest Booksellers, Indiebound, and through reviews and excerpts in bookstore newsletters and blogs, such as Powell's Books in Portland and Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. * We will promote this book through interviews with Cole Heinowitz in The Poetry Foundation blog, Words Without Borders, Poetry Society of America, and BOMB Magazine. * We will promote this title through social media like Facebook & twitter and on the author's and translators' pages on our website.
About the Author
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro was born Jose Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City, 1953). In 1975, he and Roberto Bolano founded the radical Infrarealist poetry movement. During his lifetime, Santiago published two books of poetry, Beso eterno (1995) and Aullido de Cisne (1996). Santiago died in Mexico City in 1998. Cole Heinowitz is the author of three books of poetry, Daily Chimera (Incommunicado Press, 1995), Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour Press, 2002), and The Rubicon (The Rest Press, 2008). Her poetry has appeared in journals including Fence, HOW2, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poker, Factorial!, 6X6, Highway Robbery, Mirage 4 Period(ical), and Clock. Heinowitz is also the author of the critical study, Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Other critical writings have appeared in the journals European Romantic Review and Revista Hispanica Moderna, and in the collections Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary (Rodopi Press) and "Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic:" Essays in British and American Romanticism (Romantic Circles Praxis Series). Heinowitz received a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. In 2000-1, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Seville, Spain. Heinowitz lives in Boiceville, NY and is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College.
Reviews
Papasquiaro was prolific, and Advice may be his best-known work--although until Cole Heinowitz's wonderfully propulsive version it had never been translated into English. Papasquiaro's poem, like much of Bolano's fiction, is a kind of nightmare spent in the company of one's best friends. --Robyn Creswell, Paris Review Santiago's distress, derangement, and rages extend from a deep faith in poetry and its ability to both inscribe and incite new perceptions. --Zach Savich, the Kenyon Review Best known as the inspiration for the irascible Ulises Lima in Roberto Bolano's famed novel The Savage Detectives, Santiago Papasquiaro is a formidable poet in his own right. His lyricism borders on the profane, with its bawdy metaphors and extensive use of vernacular imagery, often favoring an "ugly," highly visceral beauty over the prim imagery found in more formal work. --Library Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781933517681
Author Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 85g
