INFRAREALIST MAGIC

Belén Roca —
translated by
Noah Mazer

“The poems in Belén Roca’s Infrarealist Magic are invocations: they live as much in the voice, in the air, as on the page. Electric, kinetic, this book raises a collective cry from Chile—“an open wound that doesn’t scar over”—against state violence and oppression. In Noah Mazer’s vibrant translation, the poems rewrite and reiterate themselves like spells, alive to the power of language and community in constant transformation”

- Robin Myers, trans. Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter Books, 2020)