All That Was Future / Todo lo que que futuro is a bilingual poetry collection that navigates the intricate moments of rupture that compel a body to undergo rebirth. Loss becomes an anchor for memory, and from its depths, an altar is built—a space created with the remnants of objects, people, and places left behind. In this book, each poem is an altar, and each altar is a memory that crosses the realms of the body, identity, death, origin, motherhood and family lineage. This collection of poetry invites us to think about the narrative of what we thought the future would be and how it unravels into something entirely different from what we once thought.

 

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In All That Was Future, Iliana Pichardo Urrutia articulates a poetics of recovery. Many poems here honor people, places, and pivotal events, irreversible moments. If a collection of poems were an archive, a generational album in which words configure portraits and stories, All That Was Future would be a model of that possibility. It vindicates the corporeal, that materiality which often disappears with words, reminding us of its inevitable expiration. Pichardo Urrutia traces a lyrical cartography in which the body is an extension of water, as well as a first/last country. 

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Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernández, author of Andamiaje (2012) and Ritos de pasaje (2019). 

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Iliana Pichardo Urrutia is the poet of journey and melancholy. Her voice asserts and reasserts her femininity. She embodies the figure of the woman who emerges from the memory of her ancestors, and at the same time is the prophetic voice of the future. Her voice is also the word to name the absences and losses, but also the encounters and welcomes.

 

Viviana Gonzáles, author of Hay un árbol de piedra en mi memoria (International Latino Book Award 2023).

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