Translated by Rowena Hill (Tavern Books, paperback)

Publication Date: March 5, 2019

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated By Rowena Hill. THE BLIND PLAIN holds a generous selection of Barreto's poems spanning more than twenty years. In this bilingual edition, Rowena Hill's dextrous translations properly introduce a contemporary Venezuelan poet to a North American audience. Barreto's poems, among other things, are earthy and darkly celebratory love letters to a "rotten country." The landscape is specifically Venezuelan—populated by caimanes and caballos—but Barreto's poems are expansive; through his unique brand of eco-poetics he speaks for all of us—citizens of nations under the laws of nature.