…Every generation swears its atrocities must never be allowed to happen again, and then the forgetting sets in: a tragedy that extends the original crime. Ruth Irupé Sanabria gives us memory from the pen of a poet who was once one of these children, [18 months old] when Argentina’s paramilitary forces kidnapped her parents and almost orphaned her… -Margaret Randall, author of Against Atrocity (2019)
I am startled by this book of birds - this book of exiles and terror and earth and birds. Ruth Irupé Sanabria’s poems wreck silence with a focus that is both eerily keen and unflinching…-Aracelis Girmay, author of The Black Maria (2016) and Kingdom Animalia (2011)
…the poems in Ruth Irupé Sanabria’s book The Strange House Testifies sometimes shock, sometimes sooth, always disrupt and challenge complacency, and never flinch, cringe or look away from cruelty and horror. This is an amazingly authoritative first book... - Gail Wronsky, author of Imperfect Pastorals (2017) and Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling (2017)