Abecedary

“Jofré’s vision empowers his alchemical expression, swirling as it does his personal monsoon of droplets that casts spells seemingly closer in technique to the creative dossiers of Enrique Lihn and Nicanor Parra. Abecedary condenses via poetic semaphore lingual neutron stars penultimate to incalculable eruption.” —Will Alexander, from the Prologue: Quantum Lingual Deftness

“Surely the dream—and nightmare—of many Western writers since the birth of modernity has been to write and impose their own personal dictionary. Some attempt it sneakily; others, head on. Pablo Jofré writes head on and knows what confronts him: he must display his words, which belong forcefully to others too.” —Sergio Gaspar

“Pablo Jofré has already staked a claim on our language—plural, tribal—from which he takes the words that he will make his… the author has constructed a small verbal work, his puzzles of words that he has ordered alphabetically… Abecedary is not sloppy, piled words, but rather a fi nely knit weaving…” —Elvira Hernández