On Translating Manuel Becerra.

The article focuses on Manuel Becerra’s poetry, highlighting his ars poetica written during a stay in New York’s Hudson Valley and his exploration of human and animal consciousness through ecopoetical themes. Becerra, a Mexican poet born in 1983, draws on global poetic influences, including André Breton’s surrealism and Octavio Paz’s reflections on time and existence, while consciously avoiding Eurocentric frameworks. His poems often blur boundaries between humans and animals, using figures like the burro and poet Emily Dickinson to explore shifting identities and histories. Becerra’s work reflects a transnational sensibility, merging Mexican and New England settings with a contemplative, dreamlike mood centered on the flow of consciousness. [Extracted from the article]