Guardians of the Secret

Lila Zemborain's poetry collection translated from Spanish by the acclaimed poet and translator Rosa Alcalá. This collection power subverts paper: her words turn pages into films of blurred or incomplete images. The references are specific, but what is happening remains stubbornly a question defying the definitive answer except for what a reader is moved to speculate. Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.   Lila Zemborain is an Argentine poet and critic who has lived in New York City since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections Abrete sésamo debajo del agua (1993), Usted (1998), Guardianes del secreto (2002), Malvas orquídeas del mar (2004; published as Mauve Sea-Orchids [2007]), Rasgado (2006), and the chapbooks Ardores (1989), and Pampa (2001). Her work has been included in the anthologies Mujeres mirando al sur. Poetas s