United Left by Álvaro Lasso, Translated by Kelsi Vanada

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Eulalia Books, paperback

Publication Date: January 31, 2024

Translated by: Kelsi Vanada

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English debut by Azerbaijani-born Peruvian poet Álvaro Lasso, United Left is an “ironic, intimate, and sometimes psychedelic book” entwining the political history of the 1980s in Peru with the poet’s autobiography. Marked by dark, absurdist humor, these “pop” prose poems grapple with revolution, idealism, and the disintegration of the Leftist coalition Izquierda Unida.

Álvaro Lasso has published Dos niñas de Egon Schiele [Two of Egon Schiele’s Girls], The Astrud Gilberto Album [2010], and Izquierda Unida [United Left]. He is founder and editor of Estruendomudo, an independent publisher since 2004.

Kelsi Vanada’s translations include The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela_ (Restless Books); Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems by Marie Silkeberg (Terra Nova Press), Into Muteness by Sergio Espinosa (Veliz Books), and The Eligible Age by Berta García Faet (Song Bridge Press). She published Rare Earth, a chapbook of poems (Finishing Line Press). She works as the Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).

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