Outside Texts Ryan Dobran where the only truly interesting

where the only truly interesting books are the ones the police read

and giving what you don’t have

cultivating the questions and lacunae that emerge in their encounter

And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again

Outside Texts Ryan Dobran where the only truly interestingEleonora Requena (trans. Guillermo Parra) Textos por fuera Outside Texts is a collection of poems that question themselves, the Spanish language, the poetic self, and the authors personal geographies within and beyond Venezuela and Argentina. Animating the texts in this book is the experience of exile and migration in response to a collapsing nation and its dramatic, ongoing crisis. These poems seek spaces to exist outside (and within) the everyday