Controlled Decay

by Gabriela Jáuregui, Chris Abani (Editor)

“Remarkable. . . . Gabriela Jauregui displays perfect Her lyrics are impressive in their scope, range, empathy—and especially their authentic passion.”—Marjorie Perloff , author of 21st-Century Modernism

Gabriela Jauregui was born in Mexico City. Her work has been published in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. She is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.

Genres: Poetry

136 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2008

Reviews

[Brendan]

A mix of quality writing and poems that did nothing for me. Enough of the good to make it worth a read, but enough of the boring to make me feel that it's overrated.

Favorites:
"Seven Hundred Years Later"
"Bou Arfa" - a town in Africa
"Looking Out from a Paris Apartment"
"Desert"

if I speak of time it hasn't happened
if I speak of a place it's disappeared
if I speak of a man he will soon be dead
- "A Letter from Nadezhda Mandelstam to Anna Akhmatova"

[Liliana Valenzuela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the freshness, the freedom, and the no holds barred of Gabriela's poetry. Like a breath of fresh air. I love how she plays with her titles, sometimes independent of the poems themselves, the illustrations in each section, the way she touches on all world places and cultures, her poems about Mexico City in English!, her sense of experimentation and fearlessness. And the authority with which she uses the word fuck!