Autocinema

Overview

ontrol and beauty, composition and precision: like one who looks through a pinhole camera and from that vantage notes and examines the unexpected, the near, the never seen before, Gaspar Orozco, a poet, almost an entomologist, almost a Buddhist monk, brings to the eyes, tongue and ears of the attentive reader wisps of a reality, a hyperreality, that flickers for a moment and then is gone. Poet of lucid verse, of contrasts and tensions, Autocinema confirms his status as that rarest of rare birds, an idiosyncratic and powerful voice amidst the crowded flock of contemporary Mexican poets. —Rocío Cerón

Author Biography

Gaspar Orozco was born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1971. The most recent of his seven books of poetry are Autocinema and, with Brooklyn artist H.U. Lian, Game of Mirrors, an interactive ebook with English and Chinese translations. Two of his books have been translated by Mark Weiss: Notas del país de Z (bilingual) and Memorial de la peonía (bilingual, 01/01/2017, from Shearsman). He has translated poetry into Spanish from English and Chinese. He was part of the punk rock group, Revolución X, and codirected the documentary Subterraneans, about New York's subway norteño musicians.