Brais Lamela

Brais Lamela

Brais Lamela lives between Galicia and New York. He is currently completing a PhD at Yale University, where he works on comparative literature, cultural history, and critical thought. His current project is a literary history of the commons in early modern Iberia and the colonial Andes.


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When Poetry Summons the Dead

The dead, the disappeared, and the forgotten—these Iberian poems make clear—can never be safely put away.