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Along with Neruda, Vallejo, Paz, and Borges, Jorge Carrera Andrade is widely considered one of the most important poets of Spanish-American postmodernism.
Harvard Review wrote of Andrade's poetry in translation, it is "a testament to Andrade's status as one of the most original and enduring voices in twentieth-century poetry."
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Andrade, an Ecuadorian poet-diplomat who served in Japan, was strongly influenced by Japanese haiku.
These exquisite prose poems—many under 100 words— capture entire worlds in the space of a single image and blur the line between poetry and microfiction. Each piece offers a miniature fable, observation, or wonder.
This is flash fiction at its most distilled—haiku with a heartbeat. An example, "In the alphabet of things the snail invents the penultimate letter.” Translated from Spanish to Japanese and then English, the romance of Spanish and the precision of Japanese are found everywhere in these words as cut jewels.
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