Cadavers by Néstor Perlongher and translated by Donald Wellman

This is poetry from Argentina.

Cadavers by Néstor Perlongher translated by Donald Wellman is published by Cardboard House Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945720109E12.

Cadavers, by Néstor Perlongher, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Donald Wellman, published by Cardboard House Press in 2018. It is an Argentine Spanish-language collection by Néstor Perlongher where political violence, queer baroque energy, and bodily excess confront disappearance. The title is brutal because Argentina’s history gives it no permission to be merely metaphorical. 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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