So extraordinarily clear, so connected to the primitive I imagine I am . . . participating in a vision already lost to the world." -William Carlos WilliamsThe microgram is collected, pondered upon, and defined in this quiet classic of Ecuadorian literature. In the alphabet of thingsthe snail inventsthe penultimate letter. Jorge Carrera Andrade (19021978) has been recognized as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Alejandro de Acosta andJoshua Beckman co-translated Carlos Oquendo de Amat's 5 Meters of Poems. Beckman's translation of Tomaz Salamun'sPoker was a finalist for the PEN/America Poetry in Translation Award. "So extraordinarily clear, so connected to the primitive I imagine I am . . . participating in a vision already lost to the world." -William Carlos WilliamsThe microgram is collected, pondered upon, and defined in this quiet classic of Ecuadorian literature. In the alphabet of thingsthe snail inventsthe penultimate letter. Jorge Carrera Andrade (19021978) has been recognized as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Alejandro de Acosta andJoshua Beckman co-translated Carlos Oquendo de Amat's 5 Meters of Poems. Beckman's translation of Tomaz Salamun'sPoker was a finalist for the PEN/America Poetry in Translation Award. " | Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade, Paperback | Indigo Chapters