Algaravias; Echo Chamber

By Waly Salomão and Waly Salommao

Poetry. Translated from the Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi. The fifth and most critically acclaimed volume of poetry by Syrian-Brazilian poet Waly Salom o (1943-2003), ALGARAVIAS: ECHO CHAMBER takes its title from an entangled history, referenced in an etymological epigraph: "From al-garb, the West; that language of the Arabs considered corrupted, little understood by the Spanish. Also a name of a plant, given that name for the messiness of its branches." Its ruminations on passage, self-placement, virtual geography, human-electronic interaction, poetic consciousness, and mortality are inflected by Salom o's dual heritage; they also confront the isolating nature of the dictatorship he lived through as well as the aggressively optimistic discourse of post-dictatorship "modernization" efforts: the torrential influx of mass media and multinational corporations, and the sterile, touristic, and militarized landscapes of modern space and spectacle

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937027643
• ISBN13: 9781937027643
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"