Micrograms

"So extraordinarily clear, so connected to the primitive I imagine I am . . . participating in a vision already lost to the world." —William Carlos Williams The microgram is collected, pondered upon, and defined in this quiet classic of Ecuadorian literature. *In the alphabet of things the snail invents the penultimate letter.* **Jorge Carrera Andrade** (1902–1978) has been recognized as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century. **Alejandro de Acosta** and **Joshua Beckman** co-translated Carlos Oquendo de Amat's *5 Meters of Poems*. Beckman's translation of Tomaz Šalamun's *Poker* was a finalist for the PEN/America Poetry in Translation Award.