About the book: Mineral Fire is a stunning perceptual experiment and a reflection on time where the poet melts into the temporal to embrace both the individual and the universal. This collection of prose poems attempts to simultaneously apprehend the tempos of the human body and the cycles of geologic time, exploring how these distinct scales belong to one another. The work functions as a collaboration with the living, the dead, and the Earth itself, conducting a migration of language that bears witness to the imagination through a dynamic range of gravity, light, fever, and science. It is a dazzling exploration of the "body-as-continent" that challenges the reader with questions of identity and the dignity of humankind

About the author: María Ángeles Pérez López is a prominent poet whose work is described as being both animal and mineral, rising from the earth while falling from the sky. Her lyrical presence is characterized as an "instant of presence" and a "meteor" that navigates the invisible lines between the atmosphere and the physical world. Mineral Fire represents a significant literary milestone as the first-ever translation of her poems into English. Her writing is noted for its ability to leave a lasting impression on the reader, marked by a deep exploration of existence and "the everyday" that serves as the substance between past and present.

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