Frivolous women and other sinners by Alicia Borinsky and translated by Cola Franzen with the author

This is poetry from Argentina.

Frivolous women and other sinners by Alicia Borinsky translated by Cola Franzen with the author is published by Swan Isle Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780974888149E12.

Frivolous women and other sinners, by Alicia Borinsky, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Cola Franzen with the author, published by Swan Isle Press in 2009. It is an Argentine collection that treats frivolity and sin as masks for intelligence, social critique, and theatrical pleasure. Borinsky’s work is valuable because it lets wit become serious without giving up mischief, excess, or the pleasures of bad behavior. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Argentina; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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