Tina Escaja

Tina Escaja has published extensively on gender, technology and representation at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century and their connections with the current turn-of-the-millennium in Latin America and Spain. She is also an accomplished poet, writer and digital artist. Some of her books include Caída Libre, 13 lunas 13, Código de barras, Respiración Mecánica and her collection Manual destructivista/Destructivist Manual. Escaja has also written fiction and plays, and is the author of experimental and hypertextual works, including Negro en Ovejas, VeloCity, the interactive novel Pinzas de metal, Mora amor, and Robopoem@s. Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution ( Tin House Books), a bilingual collection rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry, is voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. With an introduction by poet, novelist and essayist Julia Alvarez, Resistencia explores feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion. Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation by a team of translators, including former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. Their work made many of the poems available for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones, celebrated the collection saying ” The poems in Resistencia do not soothe but shake us awake, and they call on us to do what they have done: to witness, to listen, to not only speak but sing.”