Isolario/Islarium - Adalber Salas Hernández

The landmass of Venezuela looks over the Caribbean Sea. From its coast, on clear days, you can see islands, from Aruba to its west, to Trinidad on its east. Adalber Salas Hernández’s collection begins in geography and history – his grandparents came from an island elsewhere – when islands are small, people are often forced to leave them. From these concrete beginnings, this dual language collection, in Spanish and in Robin Myers’ beautiful and musical English translation, moves inwards to the mind and outwards in space, and backwards and forwards in time, to wonder just what islands are.