A Whale is a CountryIsabel Zapata (trans. Robin Myers) The debut English language poetry collection by noted Mexican author Isabel Zapata, A Whale is a Country explores humanity's relationship to the natural world through a multitude of poignant angles.

not 'to be a goddamned monster

'Never holier than the spit-shined muck of what prowls between Nation and Man (in whichever order they invent themselves) Mia You is in infinite eye-roll

imagination and dream and the outer so-called real world

Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities

With a visceral-mystical poetic voice that is as teasingly unrestrained as it is intellectually sublime

and now reissued by DABA

These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality

gekust wordt

Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box stores and suburban parking lots coexist alongside the instructive silence of juniper trees and a pulsing waterfall

makes up the rest

thanks to the support of the Icatu Prize for Arts

rapacious materialism