And Death Shall Have No Dominion / Killing ‘The Mother’
by Victoria Guerrero-Peirano trans. Honora Spicer
Winner of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture’s 2020 National Literature Award in Nonfiction. And death shall have no dominion / Killing ‘The Mother’ charts death inside healthcare bureaucracy through brutal, surreal and fragmentary poetic prose, grappling with the capitalist devastation of systems of social care and how writing might enact forms of conception in the face of such conditions. Victoria Guerrero-Peirano has been recognized as one of the most singular and powerful voices of contemporary Peruvian poetry.
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Victoria Guerrero-Peirano (Lima, Peru) is a poet, researcher and essayist. In 2020, she was awarded the National Literature Award in Peru with the transdisciplinary essay Y la muerte no tendrá dominio and in 2023 she won the Proart prize for her book La mujer. She has published ten books of poetry, among them Todas las poetas peruanas tienen cáncer (2024), I am no body(2021), Diario de una costurera proletaria(2019), Zurita + Guerrero (a duo with the poet Raúl Zurita, 2014) and Berlín (2011). She has also published the novella Un golpe de dados (novelita sentimental pequeño burguesa) (2014). Guerrero-Peirano holds a doctorate in Literature and a masters in Gender Studies. She forms part of Proyecto Trans.arch: archivos en transición (Project Trans.arch: archives in transition), she is a researcher with the independent project Mapa de Escritoras Peruanas (Map of Peruvian Women Writers), she is a founder of the activist group Comando Plath and she directs the editorial Intermezzo Tropical. She cares for Varela and Berlin and teaches at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Honora Spicer is a writer and experiential educator. Her documentary poetry, essays and literary translations from Spanish have appeared in The Boston Review, Jacket2, Tripwire, Asymptote, and elsewhere. www.honoraspicer.com.
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