Cancula // Dog Days Poems

“In this brilliant bilingual anthology, William Archila creates a powerful and fiery poetics of exile, war, and, ultimately and brilliantly, survival.”-Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award winner

From war-torn El Salvador to the streets of LA, Caniacute;cula / Dog Days is a bold, bilingual collection chronicling exile, memory, and resilience across borders.

William Archila’sCancula / Dog Daysis a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry,The Art of ExileandThe Gravedigger’s Archaeology, two collections that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latin Poetry. Cancula, which means “dog days” in English, takes the reader on a poignant journey from the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s to the urban landscape of the US immigrant, revealing the turmoil and memory of the disempowered, the impoverished, and the displaced who struggle back home in Central America. In lyrical and often harrowing language, Archila unearths the vestiges of war and the exile’s return in an elegy, the fragments of a myth, or a jazz riff. They come together like the bilateral symmetry of a volcano, and the result is the introduction to Archila’s poetry for the Spanish reader.

En esta brillante antologa bilinge, William Archila crea una potica poderosa y apasionada del exilio, la guerra y, en ltima instancia y con maestra, la supervivencia.Daniel Borzutzky, ganador del National Book Award

DesdeunEl Salvador devastado por la guerra hasta las calles de Los ngeles,Cancula / Dog Dayses unaantologabilingeaudaz,que narra el exilio, la memoria y la resiliencia a travs de las fronteras.

Cancula / Dog Daysde William Archila es una seleccin bilinge de sus dos primeros libros de poesa,El arte del exilioyLa arqueologadel sepulturero, dospoemariosque marcan el surgimiento de un nuevo referente en la poesa latina.Dog Days, que significa cancula, lleva al lectora travs deun viaje conmovedor desdela agitacinen El Salvador en la dcada de 1980 hasta el paisaje urbano del inmigrante en los Estados Unidos, revelando la angustia y la memoria de los marginados, los empobrecidos y los desplazados,que luchan porvolver a su hogar enCentroamrica. Con un lenguaje lrico y a menudo desgarrador, Archila desentierra los vestigios de la guerra y el regreso del exiliado en una elega,enlos fragmentos de un mito oenun riff de jazz.Estos seconjugan como la simetra de un volcn, y el resultado es lapresentacin dela poesa de Archilaallectorenespaol.

William Archila, born in El Salvador,is the author of the most recent publications Cancula/Dog Days: Selected Poems 2009-2013 and S is For, winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is also the author of The Art of Exile and The Gravediggers Archaeology. He was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. He has been published in Poetry magazine, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, and the anthology Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. He is an associate editor at Ta Chucha Press. Born in El Salvador, he now lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land.

Mario Zetinois a Salvadoran poet, translator, and scholar. He has published five poetry collections and has edited three anthologies of Salvadoran poetry. His most recent work is the collectionEl corazn del universo(The Heart of the Universe. KDP, 2025). His work has been published in anthologies such asSegundo ndice antolgico de la poesa salvadoreaand in magazines such asLa Zebra,Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos,The Los Angeles Review, andLatino Book Review. In 2016, he was a resident writer in the Hispanic Writers Week of UMass Boston. He holds a degree in Spanish from Universidad de El Salvador and has published several papers on literary studies.

Las publicaciones ms recientes deWilliam ArchilaincluyenCancula/Dog Days: Antologa Potica 2009-2013yS is for, que recibi el 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Ha publicado los poemariosThe Art of ExileyThe Gravediggers Archaeology. En 2023 fue galardonado con la beca Jack Hazard. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en revistas comoPoetry,The American Poetry Review,AGNI,The Georgia Review,The Kenyon Review,Los Angeles Review of Books,Ploughshares,Prairie Schooner,Indiana Review,TriQuarterly; y en la antologaLatino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. Es editor asociado de Ta Chucha Press. Reside en Los ngeles, en territorio Tongva.

Mario Zetinoes un poeta, traductor y acadmico salvadoreo. Ha publicado cinco poemarios y ha compilado tres antologas de poesa salvadorea. Su libro ms reciente esEl corazn del universo(KDP, 2025). Su trabajo ha sido publicado en antologas comoSegundo ndice antolgico de la poesa salvadoreay en revistas comoLa Zebra,Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos,The Los Angeles ReviewyLatino Book Review. En 2016, fue escritor residente en la Hispanic Writers Week de la UMass Boston. Es Licenciado en Letras por la Universidad de El Salvador. Ha publicado diversos artculos sobre estudios literarios.

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publish Date: May 12, 2026
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781636284538
• Dimensions: 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.75 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Poetry