Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk (Senal, 16) - Softcover

Rocío Ágreda Piérola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946433861 ISBN 13: 9781946433862

Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022

Synopsis

The work of the philosopher-poet Rocío Ágreda Piérola is full of ghostly traces, smudged lines from the past turned with care into new forms through references to writers like Héctor Viel Temperley and Dante, rewritings of Biblical verses, redraftings of personal memory, and forays into history with the Spanish conquistadors. In Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk, Ágreda Piérola’s sensuous language is populated by animals (hyenas, wolves, birds, cats, shoals of fish), parts of the body (the tongue, the nervous system), and the physical stuff of childhood (those horses drawn with blue chalk, erased from the wall yet forever archived in memory, to be drawn and redrawn). The questions here of how to create meaning from solitude and silence do not rely on any facile premade identities or autobiographical intimacies, but seek constantly to unsettle the known, challenging given truths to forge a meaningful communication.

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About the Author

Rocío Ágreda Piérola (Cochabamba, 1981) studied philosophy and literature. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Peru and Chile, and she has collaborated with the Bolivian publishing projects 'Género aburrido' and 'Lenguanegra'. In 2017 she published the poetry collection Detritus (Maki_Naria), and is currently working on a manuscript called Quetiapina 400mg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1946433861
• ISBN 13: 9781946433862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48