A searingly sociopolitical English-language poetry from award-winning Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo, translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker.At once image-rich, lyrical, and searingly sociopolitical, HOMELAND OF SWARMS (Cardiopatías) is Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo's debut poetry collection in English, translated from the Spanish by Lupita Eyde-Tucker. In her unrelenting, charged poetry, D'Angelo reveals how the diseases and dis-eases of a fraught state infect not only the body politic but also the individual bodies of the citizenry. While the book weaves a tapestry of pain caused by the ills of corruption, scarcity, crime, inflation, and poverty in contemporary Venezuela, it also ponders how individuals can confound societal cancers or wage a worthy struggle against the afflictions--both real and metaphorical--that emanate from the heart of a country to infect, affect, and scar the populace. And yet, HOMELAND OF SWARMS imbues the struggle with a sense of hope and an abiding will to survive despite the odds. Lupita Eyde-Tucker specifically sought politically motivated poetry from underrepresented countries like Venezuela, and she renders D'Angelo's poetry into English with poise and panache. Time and again, Homeland of Swarms blends memory and imagery to draw us into the exigencies and emergencies of contemporary Venezuela and transform us, for, according to D'Angelo, "This book was born from the need to name the pain and the disease from the outside, assuming that the weight of our context affects our bodies.