Bruno Folner’s Last Tango by Mempo Giardinelli and translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

This is poetry from Argentina.

Bruno Folner’s Last Tango by Mempo Giardinelli translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78194568041E12.

Bruno Folner’s Last Tango, by Mempo Giardinelli, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, published by White Pine Press in 2020. It is an Argentine Spanish-language work where narrative, music, and the mythos of tango carry the pressure of memory. The last tango already sounds like a farewell staged through rhythm, body, and story. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Argentina. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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