Book record
Album of Fences
Omar Pimienta
Translated from Spanish by Jose Antonio Villaran
Omar Pimienta’s Album of Fences, translated by José Antonio Villarán, gives the Mexican section a border-haunted title without reducing the poem to headline or policy. A fence is object, barrier, photograph, wound, and social instruction. An album gathers images, suggesting memory arranged into sequence, perhaps even family history shaped by division. Pimienta’s work, often connected to border life and visual practice, asks for a reader willing to see boundary as lived texture rather than abstraction. Published by Cardboard House Press, this book belongs in the library because it makes Mexican poetry speak through geography, image, and obstruction. It is a collection about what separates, what frames, and what still finds a way through.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Cardboard House Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781945720123