David Shook, author of Our Obsidian Tongues, and translator of Jorge E. Like the Peruvian innovators that precede him, from Oquendo de Amat to Eielson, Vallejo to Varela, Huapaya belongs to a rich tradition while remaining utterly his own. Her translation is not a rendering of an established text but an extension-a subversion-of a text whose very nature insists on its reinvention and renewal. Ilana Dann Luna’s genius extends that gift into the English language, pushing it further still. Giancarlo Huapaya relentlessly pushes language past the confines of convention: he is a poet for whom poetry is ultimately the evolution of language. Read a review by Honora Spicer at Action Booksĭense with eros, Sub Verse Workshop courses through the body-through various bodies, in various relationships to each other-until becoming one itself. Huapaya’s poetry vibrates, crackles, and burns, moving across the visceral and cerebral planes, back and forth, always circling in to a core of human experience, a painful or beautiful truth about the nature of humanity. It is performative and neo-baroque, his poetic voice, the voice that leads this orgiastic sub verse workshop slips between engaging the audience and focusing in on the center of the self. Huapaya’s style in this workshop is fragmentary and brutal, like shards of crystal reflecting, beautiful and bloodied. The workshop invites us in, as individuals, as groups, our individual identities fusing with collectives, and then breaking off into ourselves again. The workshop is constructed like an Abecedary, in which each letter is a space where processes and performances are developed, involving bio-political relations, micro-economies, neo-mythologies, sexual technologies, hybrid esthetics, and elastic concepts that are activated through mechanisms of evolution and mutation. Sub Verse Workshop is a collection of erotic, monstrous, political poems. Description Giancarlo Huapaya Sub Verse Workshop Translated by Ilana Dann Luna

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