Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk by Rocío Ágreda Piérola and translated by Jessica Sequeira

This is poetry from Bolivia.

Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk by Rocío Ágreda Piérola translated by Jessica Sequeira is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433862E12.

Rocío Ágreda Piérola’s Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk, translated by Jessica Sequeira, has one of those titles that immediately creates a visual world: animal, color, childhood, impermanence, gesture. Chalk is a fragile medium. It marks and disappears. Horses suggest motion, strength, memory, and dream. Together they make a book that feels interested in how images are made, held, and erased. Sequeira’s translation gives English-language readers access to a Bolivian poet whose work seems to move through delicacy without becoming slight. I like the way this book’s title invites the reader to think about drawing as both creation and loss. The poem makes a mark, and the weather is already coming for it. Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk is a book for readers who want image-driven poetry with a tender sense of disappearance.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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