Product Description 
Fiction. Short Stories. "This little book can be read as a series of small portraits through time, all of which include a palm tree. Or it can be read as a revolutionary tract. The palm is a symbol traced through history, a hidden portal to intimate moments that bring geographies and situations to life. A vital presence, it coaxes out vitality. It's everywhere once you start to look, a secret joyful emblem. A LUMINOUS HISTORY OF THE PALM would have been very easy to have spent a lifetime writing. Why the palm? Why not? Are abstract categories any better? Run your fingers over the leaves, help the plant to take root, sprinkle the water of your attention on the first story so it grows. Repeat the exercise a couple of dozen times. If you like, go on to create your own history on the basis of other trees, other flowers, other animals. Infinite stories proliferate, yet sprout from the same soil."--Jessica Sequeira 
 Book Description 
A brief history of civilization threaded through the eaves and fronds of the humble palm. 
 About the Author 
Jessica Sequeira has published the novel 
A Furious Oyster (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), the collection of stories 
Rhombus and Oval (What Books), and the collection of essays 
Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age (Zero). She is also an active translator of poetry and prose by Latin American authors, both contemporaries as well as figures such as Winétt de Rokha, Sara Gallardo, and Teresa Wilms Montt, whose playful imaginations remain vital. Currently she lives between Santiago (Chile) and Cambridge (UK), where she is writing a PhD at the Centre of Latin American Studies on literary exchanges between Latin America and India.

A Luminous History of the Palm

Literature & Fiction

Sequeira, Jessica

Short Stories & Anthologies

Sublunary Editions

Two shapes float across the sky and briefly make the earth their paradise. From the frolics and capers of the beloved rhombus and oval in the title story to the final meditations, these stories reflect--encoded or in plain view--an array of emotional states. All express a faith that humans are fundamentally good creatures, and that calm, slow noticing has a value--whether it is turned toward entertainment or metaphysical jousting, contemplation of affairs or pursuits of joy.\nWritten in Buenos Aires but very much a product of the imagination, these impressions of people and environment seek to draw out what is best or most mysterious in their surroundings. In Rhombus and Oval a mind floats in any direction in pleases, gathering together what it sees to make a new home.

Rhombus And Oval

What Books Press

On a street of jacarandas in Santiago de Chile, a scientist in her laboratory analyses an intriguing set of data. Storms in the city are not only meteorological events, but generate a certain force that permits the dead to intervene in human lives before definitively passing on. Now the poet Neruda has appeared on the machine's radar, and the scientist is compiling a dossier dedicated to the writer. Her documentation includes Neruda's visits to Santiago as well as other fragments of his consciousness produced by the storm - lost memoirs, an erotic dream, impressions of the poet from the afterlife.From beyond the grave Neruda helps his followers, observes a budding romance, comforts a grieving hotel owner and sends literary enemies on a wild goose chase to the south of the country. The title A Furious Oyster comes from a line in Neruda's poem 'El desenterrado' [The unburied], in which the poet imagines the Spanish Count of Villamediana rising from his tomb to visit the earth, the 'furious oyster' of his ear once more able to hear the living.

A Furious Oyster

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Golden Jackal / Chacal Dorado (Colección Pippa Passes (Buenos Aires Poetry)) (Spanish Edition)

Poetry

Buenos Aires Poetry

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