We are glad to present 45 - 120, edited by Juf and published by Caniche.

Introduction by editors Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, art installation by Andréa Spartà and readings from the poetry anthology by Rafael Moreno, Aurélien Potier, Vega Almena and Violette D’Urso. 

Personal space is understood as the distance between 45 and 120 cm that surrounds a person. The bilingual anthology 45 – 120 brings together the work of eighteen contemporary poets who take this intimate measurement as a starting point to challenge its apparent rigidity and explore how political, social, sexual, racial, class, and accessibility factors shape it. Beyond a simple physical distance, personal space also becomes a stage where desire draws and negotiates the boundaries between the inside and the outside. This anthology included Samuel Ace, Justin Chin, Kyle Dacuyan, Rhea Dillon, Tracy Faud, Elijah Jackson, Taylor Johnson, Nadia Marcus, Park McArthur, Nat Raha, Joan Retallack, Trish Salah, Juan de Salas, María Salgado, Assotto Saint, Cedar Sigo, S*an D.Henry-Smith, Nayare Soledad, Perla Zúñiga.

Juf is a curatorial and research project around contemporary art and poetry, directed by Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, and now based between New York and Madrid.