
A Miniature Garden | Anna Lidia Vega Serova
“En épocas de crisis… cultivo un jardín en miniatura” / “At times of crisis… I cultivate a miniature garden”
This book combines the poetry of Anna Lidia Vega Serova with the photography of Gonzalo Vidal. Presented in bilingual (Spanish original and English translation) format, in which text and image are brought together in poetic conversation. The poems deal with love and loss, hybrid identity, and the planting of our dreams in the midst of urban decay.
A Miniature Garden | Anna Lidia Vega Serova
“En épocas de crisis… cultivo un jardín en miniatura” / “At times of crisis… I cultivate a miniature garden”
This book combines the poetry of Anna Lidia Vega Serova with the photography of Gonzalo Vidal. Presented in bilingual (Spanish original and English translation) format, in which text and image are brought together in poetic conversation. The poems deal with love and loss, hybrid identity, and the planting of our dreams in the midst of urban decay.
“While I look at these images, I imagine that they play with time, they romp with the present dissolving into the mists of the past; while the poetry sings of what could be in the elusive and chimeric future.” (Racso Morejón)
“Anna Lidia tells her stories from the perspective of someone who knows that she will not be able to change the imperfect, rotten and contaminating reality. She simply tells of what is dirty, smelly, low, treacherous in that reality, starting from the damaging, malign, mephistophelic connotations of modernity in the individual who is marked by fate.” (Amir Valle)