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Andrea Chapela with Kelsi Vanada and Fabiola Menchelli — 'The Visible Unseen: Essays'

On October 24th, 2022, Third Place Books welcomed essayist and chemist Andrea Chapela for a discussion of her recently translated book of essays 'The Visible Unseen,' in conversation with translator Kelsi Vanada and artist Fabiola Menchelli. Purchase the book here: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/... About The Visible Unseen. . . Andrea Chapela, one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the properties and poetics of glass, mirrors, and light as a means of understanding the self. In powerful, formally inventive essays, The Visible Unseen disrupts the purported cultural divide between arts and science. As both a chemist and an award-winning author, Chapela zeros in on the literary metaphors buried in the facts and figures of her scientific observations. Through questioning scientific conundrums that lie beyond the limits of human perception, she winds up putting herself under the microscope as well. While considering the technical definition of glass as a liquid or a solid, Chapela stumbles upon a framework for understanding the in-between-ness of her own life. Turning her focus toward mirrors, she finds metaphors for our cultural obsessions with self-image in the physics and chemistry of reflection. And as she compiles a history of the scientific study of light, she comes to her final conclusion: that the purpose of description—be it scientific or literary—can never be to define reality, only to confirm our perception of it. Lyrical, introspective, and methodical, The Visible Unseen constructs a startling new perspective from which to examine ourselves and the ways we create meaning. Praise for 'The Visible Unseen'. . . “The Visible Unseen is a wonderful category-defying book. Andrea Chapela writes with mathematical elegance, poetical precision, and wit. Her intimate family vignettes blend with a Borgesian knowledge and regard for science. This lucid, beautiful book is an experiment where one eye sees with the vision of a philosopher and the other sees with the vision of a physicist, a biologist, and a chemist. The Visible Unseen is a lyrical laboratory of thinking and feeling. It’s an uncanny memoir of inner and outer perceptions.” —Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin and How To Be Drawn “Andrea Chapela lends us her eyes—the clear, intimate gaze of a chemist and writer—to help us delve into the matter that we are made of and the mysteries surrounding us. Literature and science merge in the substance of these essays—these wise, beautiful, soulful, astonishing experiments.” —Jazmina Barrera, author of On Lighthouses and Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes Andrea Chapela has a degree in Chemistry from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2019 José Luis Martínez National Prize for Grados de miopía. The full English translation of the book is forthcoming as The Visible Unseen with Restless Books in October 2022. Her stories have been published in the journals Tierra Adentro and Este País, as well as in various anthologies. In English translation, her publications include poems in The Brooklyn Rail, InTranslation and an essay in Tupelo Quarterly. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021 and lives in Mexico City. (Photo credit: Alvan Pardo) Kelsi Vanada is the author of the poetry chapbook Rare Earth, and her book-length translations include The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela and Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems by Marie Silkeberg, which was longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Kelsi holds MFAs in Poetry (Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 2016) and Literary Translation (The University of Iowa, 2017) and works as the Program Manager of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in Tucson, Arizona. She teaches occasional classes on literary translation and is an active reviewer of poetry in translation. Find her work at www.kelsi-vanada.com. (Photo credit: Patrick Ploschnitzki) Fabiola Menchelli has a degree in Computer-Mediated Arts from Victoria University and an MFA degree in Photography and Visual Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has been invited to distinguished artist residencies such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Casa Wabi, Casa Nano and Unlisted Projects. She has received multiple awards, including the Fulbright - García Robles Fellowship, the Acquisition Prize of the XVI Mexican Photography Biennial of the Centro de la Imagen, and is currently part of the National System of Art Creators grant from FONCA. She currently lives in México City.