By María Paz Guerrero
Translated by Robin Myers
From one of Columbia’s most innovative modern poets, María Paz Guerrero’s poetry collection, Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat, is filled with sinuous verses on the human experience told with cadence akin to salsa musicians like Héctor Lavoe.
Publication Date: May 5, 2026
Paperback: 9781646054282
eBook: 9781646054299
Description
In María Paz Guerrero’s Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat, unnamed bodies are cut open in search of disease, legs buckle and collapse under pressure, and a blind cat stalks its way through the collection, bumping into unseen objects as it travels. María Paz Guerrero’s poetry collection is both experimental and lyrical, forcing readers to fall into its eerily clipped rhythm.
Biographical Note
María Paz Guerrero is the author of Ranura: antología poética (2018-2022, Olifante, Zaragoza, 2022); Dios también es una perra (Himpar, Bogotá, 2022; Torremozas, Madrid, 2023), translated into English (Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2020) and French (Dernier Télégramme, Limoges, 2022); Lengua rosa afuera, gata ciega (Himpar, 2021), translated into Greek (Vakxikon, Atenas, 2024); and Los analfabetas (La jaula, Bogotá, 2020). She has participated in festivals such as the Latinale (Berlin, 2022) and Poética 9 (Cologne, Germany, 2023). She has a PhD in literature from the University of Zaragoza. She is a full-time professor in the Creative Writing Department at the Central University in Bogotá.
Robin Myers is a poet and translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was shortlisted for the 2024 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Recent translations include We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara; Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (co-translated with Sarah Booker); Bariloche and Love Training by Andrés Neuman; and The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada, among many other works of poetry and prose.