Las Horas Imposibles/The Impossible Hours
The University of Arizona Press, University of Arizona Press
In The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey through borders and violence, love and longing, and all brutal things intent on breaking us down: distance, time, language. It harnesses linguistic and visual energy to explore themes of love, migration and violence.
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014) and The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024). He is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
