Colectivo Editor Migrante
Dive into the immersive world of the Siesta Festival with this book, seamlessly complementing the performative lecture experience. Spanning 48 pages, the content comes to life through risograph printing in two vibrant colors—teal for the text and orange. This bilingual publication features both Spanish and German languages, showcasing a blend of poetry and prose. Among the limited edition of 70 copies, 15 were handbound. They are the first and second books of a triad. Each book has an external flap to enable the three books to come together, completing the collection.
This project is funded by Berlin’s Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
We are about to enter the dressing rooms of writing. What will we find there where bibliographic citations mingle with family memories? What collage do foreign voices assemble when they encounter our own? How does one rehearse a tone? How does one revisit a poem written or read decades ago?
There are no luxuries here, only curiosity. At every step, as she traverses the days, time, the diarist finds herself facing the same questions with stubborn perseverance. 'You have to put in effort,' she tells us several times, and we don't know if she refers to reading, journal writing, this stage of life, or therapy. The essay places all elements, all blushes and mirrors, on the same level, horizontally, on the table. This way, her experiences, her journeys through the territory, the years, and the books become visible to us. A lurking and desiring vision of the world around her.
We are inside. It has been snowing since early in this book that allows us to enter the private chambers of writing in the life, work, libraries, family, friendships, and fantasies of Graciela Cros. Some poems, both her own and others', a box of reading and writing postcards, lectures, and an interview about what we do when we do what we do. At times, it seems like nothing will happen, but soon the letters rise again, restored from all flattery, to continue their task:
'Is it worth continuing? I do this with poems, they come again and again, knocking on the door, I don't open, only when I feel their intention is genuine, I let them in and write them.
Tríada mayor
This is the third book of poetry by Tomás Cohen, Tríada mayor (ISBN: 978-3-910561-02-1), it was published in Berlin in August 2023 by Siesta Verlag. Two sections of prose poems open and close the book; the middle section is written in verse. The first section of the book is dedicated to my son, the second to the moon and the third to my hometown. This final section ("Bitácora de un sobreviviente") collects what I wrote during the earthquake and tsunami in Chile on February 27, 2010, which I lived in its epicenter. I am deeply grateful to the team of Siesta Verlag for their care with the edition, to the Chilean artist Martín Kaulen for the beautiful cover image and to the Chilean philosopher Pavella Coppola for the blurb.