Under the Signs of an Impossible Night: Selected Poems

By Manuel TzocTranslated by Paul Worley Manuel Tzoc’s English debut of his poetry collection, Under the Signs of an Impossible Night, weaves together poetry and photography to create a new form of storytelling, breaking the boundaries of both artistic forms. Publication Date: June 9th, 2026 Paperback: 9781646054329eBook: 9781646054336 Description Words and images are intertwined as Manuel Tzoc explores the characteristics of poetic objects. Under the Signs of an Impossible Night explores current society’s relationship to the internet and social media, to writing and being written about, and what these connections mean in relation to indigenous language and memory. Biographical Note Manuel Tzoc is a poet, visual artist, and performance artist from Guatemala. His work is intersectional, using poetic language and visual art to explore social realities, focusing on gender, identity, the body, origins, memory, language, image, object, sexual dissidence, and all possible combinations of thes