The Polyglot is excited to publish our first bilingual poetry chapbook, Of Mothers and Madonnas, by Luciana Erregue-Sacchi.

To purchase digital chapbook (PDF) for $10, scroll down to the bottom of this page.

To purchase the physical chapbook for $12, visit this page.

“Luciana Erregue-Sacchi’s stunning bilingual chapbook will echo in your mind long after you finish reading it. With captivating precision, these poems invite the viewer-reader into the poet’s ‘own private cinema,’ where haunting childhood memories of the Argentinian dictatorship are montaged with tender ricordi of learning to make tortellini as a young immigrant mother in Canada. Through her ekphrastic bridging of English and Spanish, Erregue-Sacchi calls us to become participants in a transformative dialogue about our ‘rolodex of images’ and ‘broth of languages.’ Of Mothers and Madonnas is a courageous debut chapbook, standing as resistant and proud in Canadian Literature as the Argentinian ceibo flowers that grace its pages.”

—Adriana Oniță, Founder of The Polyglot

Luciana Erregue-Sacchi is an Argentinian-Canadian art historian, writer, translator, mentor, and independent publisher. In 2022, her imprint Laberinto Press won the BPAA Emerging Publisher of the Year Award. Luciana’s work has been published in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. She was longlisted for the Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction in 2022. Luciana is a Banff Centre Literary Arts Alumnus. Luciana writes mostly in Spanish and English at the intersection of art and life.

Revenue generated from this chapbook will go towards supporting our poet and funding more chapbooks in the future. So, why not purchase a digital and physical copy of the chapbook?

Cover design by Gian Marco Visconti

Production of this chapbook was supported by the Edmonton Arts Council