Monitored Properties by Florencia Castellano and translated by Alexis Almeida

This is poetry from Argentina.

Monitored Properties by Florencia Castellano translated by Alexis Almeida is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027797E12.

Florencia Castellano’s Monitored Properties, translated by Alexis Almeida, feels alert to surveillance, domestic space, possession, and the strange administrative language that can gather around a life. The title has an unnerving coolness to it, as though a poem might be a property record, a watched room, or a site where the self has been turned into data before it quite noticed. Castellano’s work belongs to a contemporary Argentine field interested in urban perception, conceptual play, and the social systems that press on speech. Almeida’s translation keeps the poems crisp and mobile, allowing the book’s intelligence to work without overburdening it with explanation. I like how the title lets the lyric become suspicious of its own walls. Monitored Properties is for readers interested in poetry that listens to how bureaucracy, intimacy, and imagination occupy the same address.

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