The Roof of the Whale Poems
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Author: Juan Calzadilla
Translators: Katherine M. Hedeen and Olivia Lott
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press (2023)
In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Olivia Lott, readers encounter an emotional landscape where one walks in a dreamlike state through urban and personal environments and revolutionary forefronts. The poems in this collection are not shy. They address personal discomfort, social displacement, and radical interpretation of Venezuelan modernization. Threading them together, too, is a strange spiritual thread, which makes each of the collection’s poems read like a surrealistic prayer offered to a god who may or may not be listening.