Arcadia

By María Baranda

The poetry of Mar a Baranda is distinct for its size, scope, and intensity, as well as the depths of consciousness she explores. For this reason, she doesn't write lyrics of a single page designed to evoke a sigh, bur rather works of epic scale. As we see in Arcadia, the sweep of her work includes G ngora and Sor Juana, with the expansiveness of Whitman and universal concerns, but it is also personal, when the fourth wall falls and we witness the thoughts of a writer writing. The "I" of the poems is Baranda herself issuing, not a final statement, but a cry of what Charles Simic called "A certain uncertainty."

Paul Hoover

Mar a Baranda keeps honing in on one of the most expressive lyricisms in contemporary Mexican poetry.

Forrest Gander

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1969317043
• ISBN13: 9781969317040
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Broken Bowl Books
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"