Out Now: ‘A Thing for Nothingness’ by Pablo Saborío

I am delighted to announce the publication of Pablo Saborío’s poetry collection, A Thing for Nothingness today. The book is available in paperback from Amazon, Waterstones and Barnes & Noble, and the Kindle version is available from Amazon.com.

I knew this book would be a hit from the moment I received Pablo’s submission, and it has already garnered rave reviews. Here is what the critics have to say so far:

“Saborío is a self-assured poet, willing to take risks with space and line size, form, and even font size. He is also a master of startling imagery. The poems in this volume take the reader on a voyage through space and time, or perhaps more accurately, between spaces and beyond time. A place where language may be forming with the stars.” 
— Merril D. Smith, historian and author of River Ghosts

“Elegant, philosophical, and breathtakingly lyrical, Pablo Saborío’s A Thing For Nothingness is the kind of collection that poets of his generation aspire to…Whether intentional or not, Saborío has managed to deliver a book that shows its reader both beautiful poetry and a vision of how poetic thinking works. Poets, especially, will find Saborío’s work validating and exciting, if sometimes also envy-inducing (it’s that good).”
— Stephen Dudas, reviewer for Reedsy Discovery

“In A Thing for Nothingness, Saborío compacts his sensorial desperations and awarenesses, and sharpens them into increasingly minuscule diamonds. In inverse proportions, the enigma of nothingness, haunting these verses, grows wider, heavier, more opaque and absurd, rendering meaning precarious: “under extreme conditions/the palace of language can tumble/like a turret made of potatoes.” Saborío simultaneously questions and retains a nostalgic melancholy for the forlorn beauty and mystery of nocturnal existence: “In the beginning/was the urge/to dance//and we were its feathers.” Go out and dance with him.”
— Eliot Cardinaux, founder, The Bodily Press

Thanks to all who have supported the book in its journey towards publication, and huge congratulations to Pablo, who will be hosting a book launch in Copenhagen on 19th September: follow him on Instagram @pablo_saborio_art for further details!

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