Our Pigs in Delirium mural is now up at North Figueroa Bookstore in advance of Pablo Jofré's West Coast tour with Shook.
Mural by Nat Painted
Photo Credit: Alee Peoples
Pablo Jofré with Shook
Los Angeles
August 7th, 7 PM
@ North Figueroa Bookstore
Celebrating their ongoing collaboration, the tour spotlights Street by Street (Insert Press), a restless, queer, and border-crossing body of work that moves from Berlin to Bangkok to Santiago across five collections written between 2006 and 2020. Translated into English by Shook, Street by Street explores exile, desire, and alien status with humor, lyricism, and irreverence.
Also featured is Pigs in Delirium by Jorge Carlos Fonseca, a surreal and incisive collection recently brought into English for the first time by Shook.
Together, these readings offer a rare look at transnational poetic exchange—across languages, geographies, and lived experience.
Presented by Insert Press with support from Instituto Cervantes Los Angeles and the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage.
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One of the most international Latin American poets of his generation, Pablo Jofré is a queer, laureate Chilean poet, whose work includes Entre tanta calle (Amargord/Cuarto Propio) and Street by Street (Insert Press), translated into English by Shook. He has translated writers such as Bernice Chauly, Nora Gomringer, and Elfriede Jelinek, and his own poetry has appeared in multiple languages and international festivals.
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Shook is a poet, translator, and editor of Insert Press' MANIFESTOH! imprint. Their most recent translations include Jorge Carlos Fonseca's Pigs in Delirium (Insert Press), Jorge Lauten's Bury My Heart on Mount Ramelau: Revolutionary Poems from Timor-Leste (Gato Negro Ediciones), and Mario Bellatin's Mishima's Head (Hanuman Editions). Their translation of Pablo Jofré's Street by Street was published by Insert Press in 2023.