Exilium by Maria Negroni and translated by Michelle Gil-Montero

This is poetry from Argentina.

Exilium by Maria Negroni translated by Michelle Gil-Montero is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433923E12.

María Negroni’s Exilium, translated by Michelle Gil-Montero, is a book of exile in both the political and metaphysical senses. Negroni has long been one of the Argentine poets most willing to move through gothic atmosphere, dream logic, philosophical inquiry, and the dark glamour of literary inheritance. Exilium carries that intensity into a space where displacement is not only geographic. It is also linguistic, erotic, historical, and spiritual. Gil-Montero’s translation keeps the work charged without explaining away its shadows. This is not a book that wants to be solved. It wants to be entered as one enters a strange museum after hours, aware that every object is watching back. For readers of contemporary poetry in translation, Exilium offers a fierce version of lyric thought: elegant, haunted, and unwilling to separate beauty from damage.

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