Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat
Maria Paz Guerrero author Robin Myers translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Publishing:18th Jun '26
£13.99
This title is due to be published on 18th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
“In this book, María Paz Guerrero claws at language to show us its animal core. In Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat, words become bodies: bodies that stick out their tongues, that collide with one another, that long to be touched. They are also sick bodies, straining to speak, but even so—or perhaps because of it—they sing. María Paz’s poetry, like the best salsa playlists, always revives us.” —Eliana Hernandez Pachon
“These poems aren’t just a collection of inspired moments, but the result of a linguistic exploration that generates meaning, of bodies in motion.” —Juliana Muñoz Toro, El Espectador
“Guerrero’s poems reveal a universe where the intellectual exercise of reading other poets creates a flow of images – which, at the same time, sheds light on how those readings created poems in the first place.” —Gloria Susana Esquivel
“It takes great courage to speak about sickness; despite being synonymous, between grief and compassion there is a vast silence in which books like Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat bring comfort.” —Francisco José Casado Pérez, Vallejo & Co.
ISBN: 9781646054282
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
125 pages