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Suspended Waters

From Colombia National Poetry Prize winner, Eliana Hernández-Pachón, comes a poetic essay that asks: what does it mean to possess, to preserve, to let go?

Suspended Waters is a poetic essay that connects four objects made of plant fibers: a death raft woven from reeds that has come ashore in the wrong place, a gold Muisca raft that evokes the legend of El Dorado, Amazonian flutes made of palm that can only be seen by men, and a sheet of paper used for museum records.

Exploring how these objects sustain different worlds through a text pulsing with the life of more-than-human beings and voices both solo and Choral, Colombian writer Eliana Hernández-Pachón evokes worlds of ritual, sanctity, and abundance. 


48 pages | 5 | 4.33 x 6.69 | © 2026

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