God Is a Bitch Too by María Paz Guerrero and translated by Camilo Roldan

This is poetry from Colombia.

God Is a Bitch Too by María Paz Guerrero translated by Camilo Roldan is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433664E12.

María Paz Guerrero’s God Is a Bitch Too, translated by Camilo Roldán, announces itself with blasphemy, humor, anger, and feminist voltage. The title refuses polite metaphysics. It drags God into the charged language of insult, gender, intimacy, and power, then asks what kind of poem might come from that refusal. Guerrero’s Colombian poetry feels contemporary in the best sense: willing to speak from the body, from irreverence, from social pressure, and from a lyric intelligence that does not need permission to be rude. Roldán’s translation keeps the title’s bite and gives the English a living edge. I would recommend this book to readers who want poetry that is funny without being slight, angry without becoming flat, and sacred precisely because it is willing to quarrel with the sacred. God, here, does not get the last word.

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