CAMILA BLAVI—ACACIA
Translated by William Rowe
Published October 2026
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Acacia: genus. Acacia: flower. Acacia: a
thousand species. Acacia: oryx and mother; Acacia: plant, person, poem.
This book-length poem has from the start abandoned the form it was
given and must proceed: through the burning of roots and the swelling of
buds, the flow of flesh and the flaming inside; hunger and plunging,
tendrils and shoots, the sea and the shore, the house and the flood,
actions echoing across a landscape in constant metamorphosis and
constant collapse. In Acacia, Camila Blavi asks what allows a
person to say “I”, what it means to give birth and to be born. Acacia:
spider crab, wren, seagull. Acacia: oryx, tern, plover, branch. Acacia:
to find that “love is not what they said”, in bitterness, anxiety and
howling, in drowning and living, observing what it is that organises us
in the world. Acacia: everything you can see.
CAMILA BLAVI (Santiago, Chile, 1988) is the author of Contaminaciones (Komorebi Ediciones, 2022), Puna (Bokeh Press, 2025; Provincianos Editores, 2026) and Acacia
(Provincianos Editores, 2025). She studied at the University of
Santiago de Chile and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She has twice
received a grant from the Chilean Ministry of Culture.
WILLIAM ROWE’S Collected Poems were published in 2016 by Crater
Press. He has translated a number of Latin American poets, including
Raúl Zurita, Néstor Perlongher, Magdalena Chocano, and César Vallejo. He
is Professor Emeritus at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a
co-founder of Veer Books.
“Acacia is poetry returned to its original, genuine, stripped-down form,
crafted from precious words awakened by a reborn alchemy.”— Edgardo
Dobry
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