Book: Lantana or, the indissoluble exhalation (Bruno Darío)
Author: Bruno Darío
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Printer: Versa Press
Edition: First
Place: East Peoria, IL
Date: 2025
Dimensions: 20.9 x 13.3 cm
Pages 305
"By the time of his death at twenty-nine, bruno darío had already left a surprising an indelible mark on Mexican poetry with Lantana, or the indissoluble exhalation, a trilogy comprised of the three full-length books he published in his lifetime. By turns sardonic and lyrical, amorous and irreverent, the hallucinatory sequence centers on the relationship of a young man (the Inconsolable) and an older woman (Lantana/Anfitriona) who unexpectedly takes her own life. Across the three books, darío seamlessly code-switches between registers and genres: soliloquies from people, places, and things; the Inconsolable’s notes, poems, and letters; the discourses of Lantana’s buried corpse as gravity pulls her deeper into the soil. Lantana is a kaleidoscopic assemblage of texts that experiments with centuries of poetic tradition and firmly establishes darío as one of Mexico’s most daring poets.
This bilingual edition, featuring a biographical translator’s introduction by Kit Schluter, marks the first appearance of darío’s complete trilogy in a single volume in any language."
