Mineral Fire: Incendio Mineral - Softcover

Pérez López, María Ángeles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1969317000 ISBN 13: 9781969317002

Publisher: Broken Bowl Books, 2025

Synopsis

Mineral Fire is a reflection on time and the poet's melting into it to embrace the individual and the universal, the everyday that is substance between past and present. Her poems plunge a dagger into us where it hurts the most: what we have done for the dignity of humankind, that of others, our own, with our name that carries our own identity inscribed in it? "What if you are nobody?" "And what if no one is each one of us?" 

 

 

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About the Authors

María Ángeles Pérez López (born in Valladolid, Spain, 1967) is a poet and Professor of Contemporary Spanish Poetry and Hispano-American Literature at the University of Salamanca. She has published various award-winning books, including Fiebre y compassion de los metals/Fever and Compassion of Metals (Vaso Roto, 2016); her book Incendio mineral ( Vaso Roto, 2021) was awarded the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 2022. ​​Collections of her work have been published in Caracas, Mexico City, Quito, New York, Monterrey, Bogota and Lima. Also, bilingually, in Italy and Portugal. Her book Carnalidad del frío/Carnality of Cold ( Premio Ciudad de Badajoz, Algaida, 2000) has been published bilingually in Brazil and the United States. Libro mediterráneo de los muertos/Mediterranean Book of the Dead (Pre-Textos, 2023) won the VI Premio Margarita Hierro de Poesía. She is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language​​, adoptive daughter of Fontiveros, and a member of the Academy of Troubadours of Fontivero, birthplace of Saint John of the Cross. She is a member of the Association "Genealogists," which seeks to recognize the legacy of women poets. She has been a judge for several literary prizes, among them the Premio Cervantes, one of Spain's most prestigious literary awards.

Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator from the United States. His most recent poetry collection is American Selfie (Barrow Street Press, 2019). His translation publications of contemporary Spanish-language literature include María Sánchez's Land of Women (Trinity University Press, 2022), Clara Muschietti's This Could Take Some Time (Eulalia Books, 2022) and Fabio Morábito's The Shadow of the Mammoth (Other Press, 2025). He lives in Spain and Texas and teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.

Keila Vall de la Ville is a New York-based Venezuelan author of numerous novels, short story collections, essays and poetry, including the novel Los días animales/The Animal Days (OT Editores, 2016/Editorial Katakana, 2021), which won the International Latino Book Awards/ILBA Best Novel in Spanish 2018; ILBA Best Novel Honorable Mention 2023; the short story collection Ana no duerme (Monte Avila Editores, 2007), finalist Best Fiction Book in National Short Story Awards 2006; and the poetry collection Perseo en si Bemol (Valparaíso Editores, 2023), finalist Paz Prize for Poetry 2022. She teaches creative writing workshops, is a literary translator and collaborates with literary magazines and newspapers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broken Bowl Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1969317000
• ISBN 13: 9781969317002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120