De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña Berbel García, Rosa María Colonial Anthropocene deep time geopoetics Latin American poetry sedimentative poetics This research was supported by a pre-doctoral contract from the Junta de Andalucía at the University of Granada (PREDOC 01378). I am also grateful to the LETRAL research project ‘Políticas de lo común en las literaturas del siglo 21: estéticas disidentes y circulaciones alternativas’. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada / CBUA. This paper explores de/sedimentation as both a textual and geological concept through the works of José Watanabe (La piedra alada) and Soledad Fariña (PAC PAC PEC PEC) to examine how literary and material traces accumulate, erode and reemerge within the colonial Anthropocene. Building on Watanabe’s engagement with deep time, and non-extractive ways of temporal relating to stones, as well as Fariña’s interrogation of the sedimentary layers of history and discourse, this research considers the fundamental interplay between poetry and geology in Latin American writings. Thus, the notion of palimpsest, thematically and formally understood, serves as a critical lens for tracing the entanglement of human and more-than-human histories and voices in times of extinction. 2025-09-01T09:28:45Z 2025-09-01T09:28:45Z 2025 journal article Berbel, Rosa (2025). "De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña", Bulletin of Latin American Research, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70037 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/105907 10.1111/blar.70037 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Wiley