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Availability:In StockContributor:Antonio OchoaTheme:Topical/FamilyPublish date:5/19/2026Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Nightboat BooksISBN-13:9781643623092ISBN-10:1643623095UPC:9781643623092Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Diversity & Multicultural, FamilySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.281Product ID:SCVPWCQ76C
A bilingual collection of prose poems, anchored by the structure of the spiral--literal, linguistic, cosmic.

Starting with sargassum, a species of algae found on the ocean's surface, and spiraling outwards Small Sargasso Mountains assembles language, memory, and matter in a current where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline. Bringing together childhood memories, folklore, and contemporary world events, Antonio Ochoa seeks to erase boundaries between time and space as well as linguistic and cultural codes in an "oscillation between hemispheres." The result is a piece of profound personal and aesthetic ambition, one whose modes--diaristic, poetic, philosophical--recall those of Frankétienne, W. G. Sebald, and Édouard Glissant.

Una colección bilingüe de poemas en prosa, anclados en la estructura de la espiral: literal, lingüística y cósmica.

Partiendo del sargazo, una especie de alga que se encuentra en la superficie del océano, y extendiéndose en espiral, Pequeñas montañas de sargazo reúne lenguaje, memoria y materia en una corriente donde las fronteras entre poesía y prosa, lectura y escritura, español e inglés, experiencia y memoria se erosionan como una costa. Combinando recuerdos de infancia, folclore y eventos mundiales contemporáneos, Antonio Ochoa busca borrar las fronteras entre el tiempo y el espacio, así como los códigos lingüísticos y culturales, en una "oscilación entre hemisferios". El resultado es una obra de profunda ambición personal y estética, cuyos modos--diario, poético, filosófico--recuerdan a los de Franketienne, W. G. Sebald y Edouard Glissant.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Nightboat BooksISBN-13:9781643623092ISBN-10:1643623095UPC:9781643623092Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Diversity & Multicultural, FamilySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.281Product ID:SCVPWCQ76C
Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He has published two books of poems, pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima. He is the editor of Selected Poems & Selected Essays of Eduardo Milán. He hosts the podcast Texts for Nothing: Conversations with Poets. He lives in Massachusetts.
Publisher: Nightboat Books

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