In the moremarrow by Oliverio Girondo and translated by Molly Weigel

This is poetry from Argentina.

In the moremarrow by Oliverio Girondo translated by Molly Weigel is published by Action Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983148074E12.

Oliverio Girondo’s In the Moremarrow, translated by Molly Weigel, is not a book that behaves. Girondo was one of Argentina’s great avant-garde troublemakers, and this late work pushes Spanish toward fracture, invention, compression, and ecstatic verbal distortion. The title already tells you something about the experience: language is going into the bone and then past the bone, into some stranger inner substance. Weigel’s translation has the difficult task of carrying not only meaning but linguistic mutiny, and the result is a book that reads like language trying to escape its own skeleton. This is not where I would send someone looking for a calm introduction to Argentine poetry. It is where I would send a reader who wants to see what happens when a poet treats words as living, slippery, slightly obscene creatures. The pleasure is in the damage.

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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