Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat - Paperback

by Maria Paz Guerrero (Author), Robin Myers (Translator)

From one of Colombia's most innovative contemporary poets, Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat is filled with sinuous verses on the human experience told with a cadence usually found only in music.

In María Paz Guerrero's Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat, unnamed bodies are cut open in search of disease, legs buckle and collapse under pressure, and a blind cat stalks its way through the collection, bumping into unseen objects along the way. María Paz Guerrero's poetry collection is both experimental and lyrical, drawing readers into its eerily clipped, ever beguiling rhythm.

Author Biography

María Paz Guerrero is the author of the poetry collection Dios también es una perra (Cajón de Sastre) and the essay "El dolor de estar vivoen Los poemas póstumos de César Vallejo" (Universidad de la Andes), and she is the editor of the poetry anthology La Generación sin Nombre (Universidad Central). Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Pájaros de sombra: Diecisiete poetas colombianas, 1989-1964 (Vaso Roto) and Moradas interiores: Cuatro poetas colombianas (Universidad Javeriana). Her second collection, Los Analfabetas, will be published in 2020 by La Jaula publications. She received her master's degree in Comparative Literature from The New Sorbonne University, Paris. She is currently a professor in the Creative Writing Department at the Universidad Central in Bogotá.

Robin Myers is a poet and translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was shortlisted for the 2024 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Recent translations include the National Book Award winner We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara; Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (co-translated with Sarah Booker); Bariloche, Love Training, and A Father Is Born by Andrés Neuman; and The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada, among many other works of poetry and prose.