Reseña del libro "A Catalogue of Risk (en Inglés)"
Alisha Mascarenhas’s A Catalogue of Risk is a volte-face of the neoliberal market economy’sconstruction of isolated, individual safety. In her debut book of poems, Mascarenhas lingersin the question of risk as it arises in daily life and intimacy. Through a close study and partialtranslation of philosopher-psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelle’s Éloge du risque (2011),her poems posit risk as a fissure, through which we might imagine yet-unknown futures.Alisha Mascarenhas’s A Catalogue of Risk is the recipient of the 2022 Carolyn Bush Award.Alisha Mascarenhas (b. 1989) is a poet and translator and the author, most recently, of thechaplet Contagion Fields (Belladonna* 2021). She has contributed writing to Pamenar Press,The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse, Peripheral Review, and The Felt, among others.Alisha was a 2023 resident at La Baldi Artist’s Residency in Montegiovi, Italy. She holds an MFAin Writing from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she now lives.
Alisha Mascarenhas’s A Catalogue of Risk is a volte-face of the neoliberal market economy’sconstruction of isolated, individual safety. In her debut book of poems, Mascarenhas lingersin the question of risk as it arises in daily life and intimacy. Through a close study and partialtranslation of philosopher-psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelle’s Éloge du risque (2011),her poems posit risk as a fissure, through which we might imagine yet-unknown futures. Alisha Mascarenhas’s A Catalogue of Risk is the recipient of the 2022 Carolyn Bush Award. Alisha Mascarenhas (b. 1989) is a poet and translator and the author, most recently, of thechaplet Contagion Fields (Belladonna* 2021). She has contributed writing to Pamenar Press,The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse, Peripheral Review, and The Felt, among others. Alisha was a 2023 resident at La Baldi Artist’s Residency in Montegiovi, Italy. She holds an MFAin Writing from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she now lives.
