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Kenia Cano<\/a><\/h1>\n

Animal for the Eyes<\/h2>\n

Translated by Indran Amirthanayagam<\/a><\/h3>\n

ISBN:\u00a0978-1-956921-38-0 (pbk.)<\/p>\n

(April 1, 2025; preorder pricing available through 4\/1\/25, use coupon code “animal”)<\/p>\n

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In Animal For The Eyes<\/em> poems respond to violence, particularly in the state of Morelos, Mexico. They refuse, however, to reproduce the horrendous acts and yet they do not stand aside. How to reconcile the image of a bodily sanctuary against the heightened image of a cadaverous culture? How to preserve innocence in this context?
\nThe deer, an easy and yet attentive prey, is one of the symbolic elements in this poetic scenario. In language that goes from prayers (in the manner of Vedic prayers) to a fragmented and confused postmodernism, through notes, images and phrases, the poems reveal the pursuit of innocence in a vulnerable and hostile environment. This body of sound invites us to a free and meditative dialogue.<\/p>\n

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An\u00a0Animal for the Eyes<\/em> is shrewd and hesitant, agile and furtive as the white deer of poetry… a lyrical framework that can be read as a great long poem whose tonal variations are sustained, beyond the richness of images and the handling of planes of consciousness and play of mirrors… with a measured tone in her diction and with the expressive sensuality of her voice. Through the allegory of the white deer as a common thread, this book becomes a vehicle for the paths, visions, dreams and dwellings that populate the poetry of Kenia Cano.<\/p>\n

\u2014Ursus Sartoris<\/b><\/p>\n

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In Animal For The Eyes<\/em> Kenia Cano’s poetry reaches a maturation full of deep intensity and color. The symbolic deer emerges in the poems again and again. The first line of the book says: \u201cShe has a white deer in her eyes\u201d. In successive poems the deer may become a surrogate image of the father, or a decapitated white deer, or a disembodied deer of which only the shadow is seen. Family and amorous ties are linked with the deer and its multiple presences. Remembrances are linked with dreams or with the perception that from dreams other glimpses of reality are captured, where memories themselves are questioned. However, the certainty of the body is repeatedly affirmed: \u201cMy body is a vehicle of fire\u201d, to later say \u201cMy body is an open plain.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Elsa Cross.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The conflation of women and animals is a trope nearly as old as culture itself. In\u00a0Animal for the\u00a0<\/i>Eyes, Mexican poet Kenia Cano turns this misogynistic coupling on its head, celebrating the strength of women and animals while decrying the trauma they have faced. From the biblical Judith to the medieval Hildegard of Bingen to the women of Cano\u2019s community who wage \u201csilent battles\u201d amid injustice and abuse, women hold their heads high in these poems, persevering even in horrendous circumstances. Deer \u2013 a symbol for the divine in many cultures \u2013 move through the book with power and vulnerability. Cano\u2019s visually evocative imagery comes alive for an English-speaking audience in this passionate translation by Indran Amirthanayagam. In a time when women, animals, and indeed the earth itself are all faced with violence, Cano\u2019s poetry is necessary and urgent.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jeannine M. Pitas,<\/strong> author of Or\/And: Poems\u00a0<\/i>and co-translator of\u00a0A Sea at Dawn\u00a0<\/i>by Silvia Guerra<\/p>\n

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