The Lust of Unsentimental Waters

Rosa Alcala is the author of a previous poetry collection, Undocumentaries (Shearsman, 2010), and two chapbooks, Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). She has also edited Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuna (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012). Her translations include Lourdes Vazquez's Bestiary (University of Arizona Press, 2004) and Lila Zemborain's Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.