Hugo García Manríquez Read Bio Collapse
Hugo García Manríquez is a poet and translator based in Oakland, California. His most recent full-length collections are Commonplace / Lo Común (Cardboard House Press, 2022) Anti-Humboldt, A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Litmus Press/Aldus Editorial, 2015), and Lo común (Meldadora, 2018). He has translated George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous, Williams’s Paterson, and more recently, After Lorca y otros poemas (Universidad Iberoamericana/ Matadero, 2022), an anthology of Jack Spicer’s work, as well as a collection of essays and poems by Sean Bonney, El lenguaje de las barricadas (Commune Editions/Tripwire/Matadero, 2021).
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When we read literature / we read the budget / of the Mexican army // When we perceive artworks / we perceive the budget / of the Mexican army