Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas Cordilleras de Sargazo by Antonio Ochoa

Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas Cordilleras de Sargazo

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Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas Cordilleras de Sargazo by Antonio Ochoa

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Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas Cordilleras de Sargazo

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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.


Book Details
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
ISBN:
9781643623092
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
208
Authors:
Antonio Ochoa
Published Date:
2026-05-19
Language:
English
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About Antonio Ochoa

Born in Mexico City and now based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Antonio Ochoa is a poet, translator, and editor working across Spanish and English. His bilingual collection Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo appeared from Nightboat Books in 2026. He is also the author of two earlier collections, pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima. The Poetry Foundation has published selections from his work, and his poems and essays have appeared in journals across Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, England, and the United States.

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