A beautiful reading from a poetry book that moves us from the very first moment, El interior de la ballena by Claudia Prado, translated by Rebecca Gayle as The Belly of the Whale. Come and enjoy, because we all have three minutes for good literature.
Claudia Prado (Argentina, 1972) is a writer. She has co-directed the documentaries Oro en estas piedras, about the poet Jorge Leonidas Escudero, and El jardín secreto, about the poet Diana Bellessi. Her poems have appeared in various newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, including: Poetas argentinas: 1961–1980 (Ediciones del Dock, 2007); Desorbitados: poetas novísimos del sur de la Argentina (Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 2009), Penúltimos, 33 poetas de Argentina (UNAM, 2014), and Patagonia literaria VI-Antología de poesía del sur argentino (DAAD, ...
Rebecca Gayle Howell (Kentucky, 1975) is a writer, translator, and editor of place-based literature. Howell’s work has received critical acclaim from such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, Poetry London (U.K.), The Courier-Journal, Asymptote, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Millions, Arts ATL, MINT (India), and The Kenyon Review. Her Best Book of the Year honors include those from The Best Translated Book Awards, Foreword INDIES Awards, The Nautilus Awards, The Banipal Prize (U.K.), The Millions, Book Riot, The Rumpus, and Ms. ...
In this South American epic, poet Claudia Prado imagines her ancestors’ nineteenth-century migration from the Basque Country into Argentina and, ultimately, southward into the oceanic desert. At its original publication in 2000, El interior de la ballena received Argentina's National Fund for the Arts prize, helping usher in a poetics of Patagonia. Prado's poetry honors her homeland's wide open desert and its ancient silences, offering a vision that braids intergenerational migrations into a chorus of monologues and intimate voices, all looking for home. Here speaks a woman ...
