#tangos

A painful and unsettling poetry cycle, The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson, was the next book cover I designed. Although my first idea for this cover struck me as more intriguing and obtuse than this one, I have not yet found the best way to iterate that idea. This approach conveys much of the emotional ambiguity of Carson’s narrative.

I’ll be posting more cover designs over the next few weeks on this blog, but you can check them out on my website, too.

Juan Uno: La decisión de ser, es siempre un riesgo. Juan, los dos estamos en peligro, vivir aquí en Buenos Aires es un riesgo, pero partir es también un riesgo.  El triunfo es resistir, mantenerse unidos, aquí y allá. Hay que inventar una cultura, una poética del riesgo