Roly Poly / Bicho Bola
poems by Victoria Estol
translated from the Spanish by Seth Michelson
35 pages, paper, staple-bound
Toad Press 2014, $5.00
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Victoria Estol was born
in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1983. Her poetry has earned a commendation from
National Pablo Neruda Competition for Young Poets, and it is featured in the anthologies
Cualquiercosario (2013), co-edited between Uruguay (Yaugurú) and Spain
(Libros de la imperdible), and Fixture (2014), co-edited by the
Argentine publishers Chuy and Malaletra. Her poetry also has appeared in a
diversity of international journals. Bicho Bola (Yaugurú, 2013) is her
first full-length book of poetry.
Seth Michelson is the author of Eyes Like Broken Windows (Press 53, 2012), as well as the chapbooks House in a Hurricane (Big Table, 2010), Kaddish for My Unborn Son (Pudding House, 2009), and Maestro of Brutal Splendor (Jeanne Duvall, 2005). His translation of El Ghetto (Sudamericana, 2003), by the internationally acclaimed Argentine poet Tamara Kamenszain, appears as The Ghetto (Point of Contact, 2011). He teaches the poetry of the Americas at Washington and Lee University, and he welcomes contact through his website.
- "Estol is bold and brash and brazen and we couldn't be happier." - read more in this feature over at Michael Dennis's "Today's Book of Poetry"
