Fungus, Skull, Eye, Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino [SPANISH AND ENGLISH TEXT]

Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2013. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Rear cover creased and lightly soiled, ink name on half-title page. 2013 Trade Paperback. x, 75 pp. Bilingual edition: Spanish and English text. "Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacán, Mexico. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Ángel, fascinated then as now by the non-human."--Forrest Gander, from the introduction. Fungus skull eye wing is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition.