A new poetry collection about borders, memory, and contemporary exposure.
The author of more than twenty books and winner of numerous international literary awards returns with a work that explores violence, precarity, and resistance in the contemporary world.
On June 8, 2026, poet Boris Rozas published After Bambi, a new poetry collection released by Valparaíso Ediciones that addresses some of the defining issues of our time: borders, violence, precarity, fatherhood, and memory. Through restrained writing of great emotional intensity, the book examines those who live on the margins of society and the everyday forms of resistance that endure amid uncertainty.
With a career spanning more than two decades and over twenty published books, Boris Rozas has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Spanish-language poetry. His work has received numerous national and international awards, and he recently won the VI Juan Ramón Jiménez International Poetry Prize of Coral Gables for Wes Borland aprende a tocar de oído.
In After Bambi, Rozas constructs a poetic map of contemporary exposure. The poems move through wastelands, prisons, suburbs, and roads where life is sustained in a fragile balance between loss and resistance. Throughout the book, workers, children, parents, migrants, and survivors appear as figures embodying the tensions of an era marked by vulnerability and displacement.
Far from idealizing its subject, the collection looks contemporary reality directly in the face. Borders, structural violence, the fragility of human bonds, and the passage of time become poetic material through a voice that favors emotional precision over artifice and finds a form of truth in everyday life.
The publication of After Bambi comes at a particularly significant moment in the author’s career. Following his receipt of the Juan Ramón Jiménez International Poetry Prize of Coral Gables and the recent publication of Wes Borland aprende a tocar de oído, Rozas continues to expand a body of work characterized by its exploration of memory, displacement, music, and the human condition.
About the author
Born in Buenos Aires and based in Spain, Boris Rozas has developed a literary career that engages with different contemporary poetic traditions without relinquishing a voice of his own. His most notable titles include Ragtime, Invertebrados, Las mujeres que paseaban perros imaginarios, Annie Hall ya no vive aquí, Lugares a los que volver con el buen tiempo, and Rave.
With After Bambi, the author reaffirms a poetics committed to observing the present and to literature’s ability to name what so often remains out of focus. The result is a book that invites readers to explore the physical and emotional territories of an era marked by uncertainty, but also by the persistence of hope.
Boris Rozas publishes After Bambi – Diario de Chiapas
