Animal Whisper, the title of Mexican writer Ethel Krauze’s most recent book, transports us to an inner landscape where the senses open to perception.[…] This collection of poems has a confessional tone. When whispering, we generally reveal matters that belong to the private and intimate sphere. Through the fifty-three bilingual poems that make up this Animal Whisper, with an entrance and an epilogue that concludes its circular structure, our poet confides to us: […] “I have an animal tied to my throat / it moans from there / know it’s not me.” —Carmen Nozal

Animal Whisper is the thirty-third title of Darklight's Bridges bilingual poetry series. It was translated from Spanish into English by the poets Roberto Mendoza Ayala (MEX) and Arthur Gatti (USA). It has a foreword by the Mexican poet Carmen Nozal and a beautiful cover design and interior illustrations by the graphic artist Alonso Venegas Gómez.

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I have animals

            hanging from the bridges

ready to jump into the void,

they watch

they watch my eyes

            burn

begging them

to do it.

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