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Product Identifiers

PublisherCardboard House Press

ISBN-101945720107

ISBN-139781945720109

eBay Product ID (ePID)242582961

Product Key Features

Book TitleCadavers

TopicCaribbean & Latin American, General, Lgbt

Publication Year2018

Number of Pages44 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenrePoetry

AuthorNéstor Perlongher

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight3 Oz

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

SynopsisTranslated from the Spanish by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman. "In CADAVERS, his long poem on the desaparecidos--the disappeared victims of Argentina's military dictatorship--Perlongher does not seek to return their presence or whereabouts to those unnamed, absent corpses, but to restore their corporeity to them. He does so by means of a poetic language that can be as coarse and funny as it is ornate, bringing together such disparate elements as G--ngora's Baroque and the neighborhood hair salon, Rubén Dar'o's Modernismo and Argentine public elementary schools. "Legend has it that Perlongher wrote his poem on the interminable bus trip from Buenos Aires to São Paulo that would take him into exile from a regime that had paradoxically criminalized him not for his fierce political activism, but for his militant homosexuality. This gorgeous translation by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman retraces Perlongher's journey, and finally brings his great poem to an English-speaking audience."--Ezequiel Zaidenwerg Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies., Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman. "In CADAVERS, his long poem on the desaparecidos--the disappeared victims of Argentina's military dictatorship--Perlongher does not seek to return their presence or whereabouts to those unnamed, absent corpses, but to restore their corporeity to them. He does so by means of a poetic language that can be as coarse and funny as it is ornate, bringing together such disparate elements as Gongora's Baroque and the neighborhood hair salon, Ruben Dario's Modernismo and Argentine public elementary schools. "Legend has it that Perlongher wrote his poem on the interminable bus trip from Buenos Aires to Sao Paulo that would take him into exile from a regime that had paradoxically criminalized him not for his fierce political activism, but for his militant homosexuality. This gorgeous translation by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman retraces Perlongher's journey, and finally brings his great poem to an English-speaking audience."--Ezequiel Zaidenwerg