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"In this brilliant bilingual anthology, William Archila creates a powerful and fiery poetics of exile, war, and, ultimately and brilliantly, survival."-Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award winner
From war-torn El Salvador to the streets of LA, Cancula / Dog Days is a bold, bilingual collection chronicling exile, memory, and resilience across borders.
William Archila's Cancula / Dog Days is a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry, The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger's Archaeology, two collections that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latin Poetry. Cancula, which means "dog days" in English, takes the reader on a poignant journey from the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s to the urban landscape of the US immigrant, revealing the turmoil and memory of the disempowered, the impoverished, and the displaced who struggle back home in Central America. In lyrical and often harrowing language, Archila unearths the vestiges of war and the exile's return in an elegy, the fragments of a myth, or a jazz riff. They come together like the bilateral symmetry of a volcano, and the result is the introduction to Archila's poetry for the Spanish reader.
"En esta brillante antologa bilinge, William Archila crea una poetica poderosa y apasionada del exilio, la guerra y, en ltima instancia y con maestra, la supervivencia."-Daniel Borzutzky, ganador del National Book Award
DesdeunEl Salvador devastado por la guerra hasta las calles de Los ngeles,Cancula / Dog Dayses unaantologabilingeaudaz,que narra el exilio, la memoria y la resiliencia a traves de las fronteras.
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Title: Cancula / Dog Days
Format: Hardback Book
Release Date: 05 Aug 2026
Author: William Archila
Sku: 3634239
Catalogue No: 9781636284552
Category: Reading
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