Iván Argüelles is an innovative Mexican-American poet. His many books of poetry include “That” Goddess; Comedy, Divine, The; Fragments From a Gone World; Looking For Mary Lou (for which he received the 1989 William Carlos Williams Award); HOIL (an elegy for his late son); and Twilight Cantos. His most recent book is Testamentum: Two Alphabets. In 2010 he received an award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Death of Stalin; he also received a lifetime achievement award from that Foundation in 2013.

Image from Astro Butterfly: Venus’s Descent Into the Underworld