Andean nuclear spring
Subtitle: Primavera nuclear andina
By: Agustín Guambo ; translated by Carlos No
Contributors: Moreno, Carlos, translator; Bourne, Andrew, series designer; Franklin, Neelufar, compositor; Lawson, Sarah, compositor; Ugly Duckling Presse; McNaughton & Gunn
Edition: First edition, first printing.
Series: Señal -- 11; Señal -- 11.
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9781946433367
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Translations into English; Ecuadorian poetry
Other titles: Primavera nuclear andina
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Agustín Guambo's Andean Nuclear Spring is a literary artifice that situates us in the heart of the post-apocalypse in Quito. In this nuclear spring, Quito could be any other city in Latin America: a reality populated by plain landscapes, dreams, rhinoceri, the changing direction of wind, ashes and chants passed into the future from one generation to the next. Disparate voices speak: from native quechua to punk songs, they carry parts of a story whose narration describes a moment near us but not quite where we are, mapping, where destruction burrowed its way into our societies. This is an attempt toward faith in our ideologies, identities, cultural backgrounds, and the never-ending presence of love. And -- or -- it is a Latin American (that is, American) neo-baroque aesthetics of the void, that vast unfilled body like a starry night on the páramo.."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: 750 copies printed.

Original publication: Primavera nuclear andina (Buenos Aires: Difusión A/terna Ediciones, 2016).

"Agustín Guambo (Quito, Ecuador) is a poet, writer, and anthropologist. He directs the anarcho-editorial Project Murcielagario Kartonera, and organized the first two years of the International poetry festival Lectura de un Kanibal Urbano (Lecture of an Urban Kanibal) in Quito. His publications include POPEYE's Sea (La Apacheta Cartonera); Ceniza de Rinoceronte (La Caída); and Primavera Nuclear Andina (A/terna). His work has been included in the anthologies Sangre de Spondylus: Ecuadorian Late Poetry (Vallejo & Co., Peru) selected by Luis Carlos Musso and Mario Pera; and País imaginario: Escrituras y transtextos: Poesía Latinoamericana 1980 - 1992, selected by Maurizio Medo, Mario Arteca, and Reynaldo Jiménez (Ay del seis). Guambo has participated in multiple lectures and readings in Latin America including the Buenos Aires Book Fair, Lima's Anti FIL, Cali, La Paz, and Santiago, and won the Ruben Bonifacio Nuño Prize in Mexico."--Provided by publisher.

"Carlos Moreno (Carlos No) (Quito, Equador) is a visual artist, researcher in the field of cultural politics, and independent cultural agent. His work focuses on the relationship of the public with the arts. He curates and produces diverse exhibitions and collective projects to address the problematics of cultural sustainability in Quito as well as the debate on the influence of Western culture in the periphery. He is part of the collectives Komuna Kitu and Cultura Viva Comunitaria. He has edited TrueQue's Residency compilation (Ayampe, Ecuador) and written articles about cultural politics in Latin America, the arts, and education. Moreno is working on a master's thesis about public funds in culture at Simón Bolívar Andean University and is pursuing a master's degree in Sociology at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute."--Provided by publisher.

Text in Spanish and English translation.

Bound dos-à-dos, with Spanish original and English translation back-to-back and inverted, each part with separate title page and pagination.
Table of contents: title: Andean nuclear spring :; title: [.iii.] --; title: a reading from the book of the andes or the song of the indigenous scar --; title: ancestral fever tatooing itself on our medulla --; title: [.iii.] --; title: listening to Radiohead as I remember your smile each time I talked about God --; title: To the minor poet that I am.; title: Primavera nuclear andina  :; title: Lectura del libro de los andes o canto de la cicatriz indígena --; title: fiebre ancestral tatuándose sobre nuestra médula --; title: escucho Radiohead mientras recuerdo tu sonrisa cada vez hablaba de dios --; title: Al poeta menor que soy.