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Feather of a Featherless Bird
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Feather of a Featherless Bird / Pluma de un Pájaro Desplumado, a bilingual collection of poems by Juan Garrido Salgado, covers a wide range of themes from the intimate and personal to the political and social. It focuses mainly on the onslaught of fascism in the...
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Feather of a Featherless Bird / Pluma de un Pájaro Desplumado, a bilingual collection of poems by Juan Garrido Salgado, covers a wide range of themes from the intimate and personal to the political and social. It focuses mainly on the onslaught of fascism in the world and the dehumanisation brought about by this era of digital domination and colonialism, as well as wars. Among these, the genocide against the Palestinian people stands out.
The poetry within expresses the loneliness, isolation, and pain of existence, while resisting with words to reveal "what is silenced, what is hidden, and what is denied."
The use of the bird as a representation of the poet, alongside birds and their wings and feathers as metaphors for the creation of the poems themselves, weaves through the book a poetic voice crying out for love and freedom. It asks poignant questions, such as: "Where are we going / Humanity anchored in the unreason of an elite / We are agony of thousands, dust of riddled stars."
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781923099753
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Illustration: Illustrations
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Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 124
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About the Author
Juan Garrido-Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his political activism. He has published eight books of poetry and his work has been widely translated. He has also translated works by a number of leading Australian & Aboriginal poets into Spanish, including five Aboriginal poets for the anthology Espejo de Tierra/ Earth Mirror (2008). With Steve Brock and Sergio Holas, Garrido-Salgado also translated into English the Trilingual Mapuche Poetry Anthology. The book When I was Clandestine was part of a poetical tour at the Granada International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua, Mexico and Cuba (La Habana City) in 2019
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