Architects of the Imaginary / Los arquitectos de lo imaginario

A bilingual editon (Spanish / English translation by G. J. Racz)“Marta López-Luaces’s Architects of the Imaginary brilliantly demonstrates the practice and the truth of 'wreading' as articulated by Jed Rasula in his books This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry and On Wreading where 'wreading' means the 'w' of writing and the act of reading conjoined. Truly writing and reading are inseparable here. López-Luaces in a voice both delirious and steady orchestrates language drawn from Jabès Duncan Neruda Gamoneda H.D. Plath Dickinson and Rosalía de Castro among many others such that “Out of a foliage of words/Emily and Rosalía speak/inside me.” In the process López-Luaces in a world set on reductions affirms the powers and the potentialities of the non-self-identical which are also those of poetry itself. That this is a bilingual edition the Spanish and the English equally luminous further deepens that affirmation and our encounter with wreading.”—Leonard Schwartz author of IF