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Impure Acts
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781945023231
Publisher: Indolent Books
Published: Sep 15 2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Ángelo Néstore's poems in Impure Acts are both heartbreaking and an absolute joy to read. I especially love When I Picked the Wrong Bar. --Hollie McNish
Ángelo Néstore's poetry, his impure acts, changes the whole cartography of desire with the beautiful perfection of a modern, dream-like demiurge who knows he is in absolute possession of his glory. Poem-temples, poem-traps, gaps in the disquiet for those who will have no better illumination than that which is offered by this dialogue between poet and reader. Communion, I would say, if communion were not sometimes dangerously conflated with religiosity. Poems which, in their exquisite and innovative craftsmanship, already demand a canonical place in our collective memory and anthologies. --Carlos Pintado
Ángelo Néstore's Impure Acts is a pair of full lungs heaving just below the surface of the text. The poems explore and explode inherited notions of gender, desire, & reproduction. The lyric voice is alive and vibrating in these clipped narratives where nostalgia abuts the present & sings there. This is a book to be read aloud & then to read aloud again. Try it with your friends. --Sam Sax
Ángelo Néstore (Lecce, Italy, 1986) is a poet, actor, and professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Málaga in Spain. The author of two poetry collections, he co-directs the Irreconciliables International Poetry Festival and the feminist poetry publisher La Señora Dalloway. He is also a translator from English and Italian into Spanish, and from Spanish into Italian.
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is a bilingual author and translator living in Madrid. Writing in both Spanish and English, he has published over one hundred books as author or anthologist and has translated over thirty poetry collections.
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