Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier Read “Jaws [tiburón]”

“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack.  JAWS  is a book about water, breath, and suffocation, about work that disciplines the body, about survival under glass.

Through (mis)translation, documentary fragments, and cinematic archive, these poems reveal how capital renders certain lives expendable, human and non-human alike. Fierce, darkly funny, and formally restless,  JAWS…