Fernando Valverde (Spain, 1980) has been voted the most relevant Spanish-language poet born since 1970 by nearly two hundred critics and researchers from more than one hundred international universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton, Bologna, Salamanca and the Sorbonne). His books have been published in different countries in Europe and America and translated into several languages. He is a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Virginia.

Carolyn Forché is the author of a recent memoir, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, finalist for the National Book Award, and a poetry collection, In the Lateness of the World, both from Penguin Press. This poem will appear in América by Fernando Valverde, translated by Carolyn Forché, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2021.

Books by Fernando Valverde:

Other poems on the web by Fernando Valverde:
Three poems
Three poems
"The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman"

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