Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo

Author: Antonio Ochoa

Publisher: Nightboat Books (2026)

Starting with sargassum, a species of algae found on the ocean’s surface, and spiraling outwards, Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazoassembles language, memory, and matter in a current where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline. Bringing together childhood memories, folklore, and contemporary world events, Antonio Ochoa seeks to erase boundaries between time and space as well as linguistic and cultural codes in an “oscillation between hemispheres.” The result is a piece of profound personal and aesthetic ambition, one whose modes—diaristic, poetic, philosophical—recall those of Frankétienne, W. G. Sebald, and Édouard Glissant.