White Holes - Tapa blanda

Poetry. WHITE HOLES is a sequence of poems that attempts to give speech, broken as it might be, to the grief that is felt in the wake of a mother's death. Here, in James Hart's left-behind world, what isn't said--what can't be said--carries as much weight as what is said. There is a delicate balance in these poems between language and articulation and the fractured space, both psychic and visible, that must be entered and accounted for in the aftermath of the mother's absence. It was Beckett who made the claim that "you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." This book seizes hold of this declaration and makes from it an artifact that both holy and wholly Hart's own. James Hart III lives and works in Detroit, where he runs a poetry series at the Zeitgeist Gallery on Michigan Avenue. He is also author of The Watchable Book.

Mario Benedetti's vast body of work encompasses every genre and is known worldwide. He has written for magazines, newspapers, and various periodicals and journals in Uruguay, Argentina, and Mexico. In addition, selections of his work are represented in anthologies published in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, England, Italy, United States, Israel, Venezuela, and Spain. In addition to a full-length study of 20th century Uruguayan literature, he is the author of more than seventy-five books and his work has been translated into twenty-six languages, including Braille. Since 1985, he has lived in Montevideo where he devotes his full time to writing.