Poemas Fibra

“What use is poetry, amidst the ongoing, semi-forgotten crime that is asbestos exposure?” asks Arthur Rose at the beginning of this anthology by Rike Bolte. What can poetry say about the mineral world, about the toxicity of the Anthropocene, about all the invisible injustices that leave us breathless? The poems in Poemas fibra attempt to answer these questions, or at least inhabit them, while honouring those who are still fighting asbestos in the streets, the mines, the home, and the workplace.

In Spanish, Italian, Portuguese