Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic

＂[Santiago Papasquiaro] didn’t believe in countries and the only borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics.＂--Roberto Bolaño

＂Built from the collision of ’low’ and ’high’ culture--of police brutality and drunken ranting with Modernism and German phenomenology--it is a testament of resistance to political and artistic repression comparable to Ginsberg’s ’Howl.’＂--Cole Heinowitz

Readers might recognize Mario Santiago Papasquiaro as the eccentric and renegade Ulises Lima in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives. Fierce and visceral, Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic is canonical to Infrarealism, a poem that renders poetry inseparable from politics. It was published originally as part of the posthumous collection Jeta de Santo: Antología Poética, 1974-1997. This is the first widely available English translation of Santiago Papasquiaro’s work.

the thesis & antithesis of the world
meet
like 1 white-hot meteor & 1 UFO in distress
& inexplicably they greet each other:
I’m the 1 who embossed on the back of his denim jacket
the sentence: The nucleus of my solar system is Adventure

Mario Santiago Papasquiaro founded the radical Infrarealist poetry movement with Roberto Bolaño. During his lifetime, Santiago published two books of poetry, Beso eterno (1995) and Aullido de Cisne (1996). He died in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1998.

Cole Heinowitz is an associate professor of literature at Bard College.

Alexis Graman is a painter and translator living in New York.

Mario Santiago Papasquiaro was born Jose Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City, 1953). In 1975, he and Roberto Bolano founded the radical Infrarealist poetry movement. During his lifetime, Santiago published two books of poetry, Beso eterno (1995) and Aullido de Cisne (1996). Santiago died in Mexico City in 1998.

Cole Heinowitz is the author of three books of poetry, Daily Chimera (Incommunicado Press, 1995), Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour Press, 2002), and The Rubicon (The Rest Press, 2008). Her poetry has appeared in journals including Fence, HOW2, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poker, Factorial!, 6X6, Highway Robbery, Mirage 4 Period(ical), and Clock. Heinowitz is also the author of the critical study, Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Other critical writings have appeared in the journals European Romantic Review and Revista Hispanica Moderna, and in the collections Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary (Rodopi Press) and ＂Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: ＂ Essays in British and American Romanticism (Romantic Circles Praxis Series). Heinowitz received a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. In 2000-1, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Seville, Spain. Heinowitz lives in Boiceville, NY and is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College.