{"product_id":"bye-bye-babel-jeszs-montoya-9798993242941","title":"Bye bye Babel","description":"With its title alone, Patrícia Lavelle's book of poems \u003ci\u003eBye bye Babel\u003c\/i\u003e calls to mind two films as iconic for Brazilians as they are for the French: \u003ci\u003eBye bye\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrasil \u003c\/i\u003e(1979) by Cacá Diegues and \u003ci\u003eAdieu au langage \u003c\/i\u003e(2014)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eby Jean-Luc Godard. Each of these films built, in its own time, an image of origin, of diversity, and of decline. The book's title brings to mind the communication breakdown that comes with a loss of meaning. Its initial images lead me to the idea that language has failed and is failing, and that nonetheless, despite it all, it will try not to fail. Going on to read the poems themselves, organized into blocks whose strongest imagery is that of disappearance, another sensation rushes over me. I feel I am faced with poems whose temporality is marked by a metamorphosis that is, simultaneously and paradoxically, both mythological and historical.\u003cbr\u003e-Susana Scramim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesús Montoya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993242941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alliteration Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Jesús Montoya","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440651972863,"sku":"9798993242941","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66afc834-c838-41d6-bd9c-f61bad76ed0c.jpg?v=1777183891","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bye-bye-babel-jeszs-montoya-9798993242941","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}