Al Filo

Interviews by Miyó Vestrini 

The book’s layout and color palette were inspired by 19th-c. bound manuscripts collected in the National Archives of Venezuela. The cover is made out of cardboard, the same kind used in recycled boxes. Back in 2015, inflation made importing materials to Venezuela particularly difficult, so we resorted to cardboard to protect the text block, made of French-folded Bible paper.  This contextualizes the book within a framework of constraints, but it also establishes dialogues with other publishing traditions like the Cartonera movements in different parts of Latin America.

Accolades: Latin American Design Award Gold in Editorial, 2016 (Perú).

This volume compiles interviews conducted by Miyó Vestrini between 1980 and 1981 and published in the newspaper El Nacional, with a prologue by Diana Moncada, and archive photographs by Vasco Szinetar, digitized from 35mm negatives.
Cardboard covers. Vestrini is considered a major Venezuelan poet; the critic Julio Miranda described her as one of the most engaging poets of her generation.
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Vestrini was also a widely admired cultural journalist. She received the National Journalism Award in 1967 and 1979. Her book-length conversations go beyond the regular format of oral exchanges, introducing the accoutrements of literary chronicles and the nuances of autobiographical asides.

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Al Filo

Compilation of literary interviews, 1980–1981 by Miyó Vestrini

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