{"product_id":"red-lip-peril-by-dalmacia-ruiz-rosas-samohod","title":"Red Lip Peril by Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Red Lip Peril's abject violence animates missing histories while at the same time showing us how to live in our perpetual state of decay. \" —Daniel Borzutzky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRed Lip Peril brings Peruvian poet Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas’s searing, corporeal, political poems of the 1970s and 1980s into English for the first time. Harnessing and writing back against state violence, against amnesia, against complacency, and into desire, these poems speak a Lima on the brink, caught in the landslide of history, where the poet is “still shut up remembering ’77 \/ when for screaming my dreams aloud they beat me”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod (Lima, 1957) is the author of the poetry books Secuestro en el jardín de las rosas, Baile, Conjunto de objetos encontrados detestables pensamientos de jovenes ingeniosos, Roce en roq, Palacio de Justicia, and El son del jubilado. She studied literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. She worked as a journalist in current affairs magazines such as La Tortuga, in political weeklies such as Sí and Oiga, and was co-editor of the cultural supplement Asalto al cielo. Since the 1980s she has been a photographer of the underground rock scene. She has produced radio programs such as Ave Roq and Kuntur Roq.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudah Rubin is the editor of A Perfect Vacuum. His translation of Rodrigo Quijano’s writing, An Inherent Tear, was published by Wendy’s Subway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod's Red Lip Peril are a blistering revelation. I read them in one gulp with my mouth open and my body being changed by a dynamic confrontation with an art that matches the brutality of economic and state violence with a force and energy that screams, reeks, despairs, wounds, and, ultimately, gives voice to a kind of theory: survival. Judah Rubin's translation amplifies Ruiz-Rosas Samahod's seering language of presence, disappearance, absence. Red Lip Peril's abject violence animates missing histories while at the same time showing us how to live in our perpetual state of decay. \" —Daniel Borzutzky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dalmacia Ruíz-Rosas’s poetics are both fierce and tender, political and intimate. Love, life, and counterculture are celebrated, while themes of resistance and defiance against power reveal the scope of possibility for the girl the poet once was: 'The poet calls for the uprising \/ of the servants. I know \/ that the day will come \/ when the sun won’t flay our backs \/ We will make love without fatigue \/ We’ll have an ice cold lemonade in the desert'. Dalmacia’s city is the cartography of writing on the ground, of marches, of adventures and misadventures, and of the people who wander that city’s streets. It is a wild and poor city in which even 'living is subversive'. The dangerous city, the dangerous poet, and her red lips that speak, that shout.\" —Victoria Guerrero Peirano\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ugly Duckling Presse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67887930016025,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1882\/8385\/files\/1757435811-900.jpg?v=1792642640","url":"https:\/\/otherbooksla.com\/products\/red-lip-peril-by-dalmacia-ruiz-rosas-samohod","provider":"other books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}