Eyes Already Ruined: Los ojos ya deshechos - Paperback

by Luis Aguilar (Author)

A remarkable book by one of the most important contemporary Mexican poets in a superb translation by Lawrence Schimel.

Author Biography

(Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1969) is a poet, translator and professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. He has published Eclipses y otras penumbras (poetry, UANL, 1998); Soberbia de cantera (chronic, DCI, 2000); Tartaria (poetry, Mantis Editores, 2003); Mantel de tulipanes amarillos, (poetry, French-Spanish, Écrits des forges and Mantis Editores, 2005); Los ojos ya deshechos (Mantis Editores-Secretary of Culture of Jalisco, 2007); La entrañable costumbre o el Libro de Felipe (Poetry, Spanish-Portuguese, Sebastião Selo Griffin-Mantis-UAN, 2008); Decoración de interiores (Bonobos Publishers, 2010); Os Olhos já desfeitos (Poetry, Sebastiao Selo Grifo, Sao Paulo, Brazil); Lateral izquierdo (Short stories, CONARTE, 2011); Fruta de Temporada (Poetry, University of Quintana Roo-National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, Cuba-Mexico); Ground Glass / Vidrio Molido (poetry, English-Spanish, BookThug-Mantis Editores, Canada-Mexico); Gatos de ninguna parte (El Quirófano Ediciones, Ecuador, 2013). His work is widely antologized in Mexico and abroad. As a translator, his work has been recognized nationally and internationally. Among the awards he has received for his poetry are the National Cultural Journalism Prize Fernando Benitez and in 2009 the Regional Cultural Journalism Award FORCA Northeast. He has been a fellow of the Center for Writers of Nuevo León twice; the FONCA within the Cultural Co-investment projects; and has also received the national young poetry prize Manuel Rodríguez Brayda (Tamaulipas, 1988); the short story state award Tale On Rails (2001); honorable mention in the Regional Poetry Prize Carmen Alardín (2004); the Nuevo León Prize for Literature and the International Poetry Prize Nicolás Guillén, both in 2010. His literary work has been translated into many languages.