Lucía Estrada
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Katabasis
Lucía Estrada’s Katabasis is a three-part plunge into darkness, madness, the unknown. It takes its title from the Greek word, which, in the classical tradition, refers to knowledge quests into the underworld by epic heroes. Estrada’s katabatic poetics unearth a new take on descent and, with it, dissent: descent into mind-states and dream-states, descent into the intertextual and uprooted, descent into a trauma unique to a life lived in active or dormant warzone, dissent from a US imperialist vision of Colombia and its cultural production. Rendered into English by Olivia Lott, Katabasis is the first poetry collection by a Colombian woman to be translated into English and published in the United States.
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