Description
First published in Mexico in 2015, JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Ignacio Manuel Altamirano.
Join us in celebrating this award-winning poetry book’s first publication in English! We’ll be joined by translators Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier, in conversation with author Marc Perez.
With sharp lyricism, documentary fragments and cinematic echoes, this poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, resumé and body under attack. Fierce, darkly funny, and formally restless, JAWS insists on the shark not as monster, but as mirror—swimming, working, alive and curious about where meaning breaks down across languages and what lurks in the waters between…
Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier places Rodríguez Mendoza’s Spanish in conversation with an English that bends, bites, and swims alongside it.
Books will be available for sale. This event is free but please RSVP here.
More about Upstart & Crow:
Upstart & Crow is a not-for-profit creative studio and literary incubator that champions writers, readers and stories, and the role they play in shaping our lives. We develop original programs, support artists and revel in creative projects focused on Literature In Translation / Climate Solutions / Poetry / Civic Dialogue / Community & Skills Building … all with the aim of elevating the role of literature and storytelling in our lives. Find us on Granville Island, Gibsons and online at upstartandcrow.com.
Accessibility:
The main studio of our shop is accessible for folks with mobility aids. There is a washroom on the main floor available for attendees. As part of disability justice and community care for the chronically ill, vulnerable and elderly, we ask that you refrain from attending if you feel sick.
Questions: hello[at]upstartandcrow.com.
