Translated by Torin Jensen
Images by Barry Shapiro, Valerie Mejer Caso
Read by Anna Denney
Edited by Paul Cunningham
Swimmers and brides: Oriana Camarena Mejer & Raquel Peyret Grosso
This poem film was part of the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Photograph by Barry Shapiro
EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK
"Mejer Caso’s poetry cannot be equal to who is lost, but it can create something out of language that’s immortal, both terrible and precious."
— Elisa Gabbert, The New York Times
"While we're talking about convention, this book classifies as poetry. It throws this claim to poetry, however, immediately into question: the title informs us that it is a novel, and this novel is blue. This fact is no negligible, because if we agree that it's poetry, what we really mean is a superior sense of the term, all but forgotten nowadays: ever since Gilgamesh and the Iliad, and beyond, poetry arises from the impulse to tell a story. That is its fundamental fact. This book, by calling itself a novel, tells us just as much, but in reverse. There is no language for story but what has its origin in poetry."
— Raúl Zurita on This Blue Novel
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