Decals by Harris Feinsod, Oliverio Girondo and translated by Rachel Galvin

This is poetry from Argentina.

Decals by Harris Feinsod, Oliverio Girondo translated by Rachel Galvin is published by Open Letter. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940953878E12.

Decals is best approached as a conversation across time, with Oliverio Girondo’s Argentine avant-garde restlessness carried into English through Rachel Galvin and framed through Harris Feinsod’s scholarly attention. The book does not feel like a quiet transfer of poems from one language to another. It feels like the continuation of a mischief already present in Girondo: urban speed, bodily comedy, linguistic distortion, and the pleasure of letting perception go slightly off its rails. Readers interested in Latin American modernism will find the historical value here, but I would not want the book reduced to that. Its greater charm is how it lets experiment remain playful rather than merely difficult. Decals reminds us that the avant-garde was never only a program. Sometimes it was simply a way of walking through the city with the senses turned up too high.

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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