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Micrograms

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Jorge Carrera Andrade

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• Spanish title: Microgramas
• Translated and with an Introduction by Alejandro de Acosta and Joshua Beckman
• Previously translated in a bilingual edition, as Microgramas (2007), by J.Enrique Ojeda and Steven Ford Brown

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Our Assessment:

B : attractive small volume

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  From the Reviews:

• "Defining the microgram by its kinship to other forms creates a brilliant foundation for the poems, since often, as in "Definition of a Seagull," members of the natural world are defined by their metaphorical relation to objects within our own.&qu