Silvina Ocampo by Silvina Ocampo and translated by Jason Weiss

This is poetry from Argentina.

Silvina Ocampo by Silvina Ocampo translated by Jason Weiss is published by New York Review Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781590177747E12.

Silvina Ocampo, translated by Jason Weiss, introduces English-language readers to the poetic work of an Argentine writer often better known for fiction and for her place in a remarkable literary constellation. Ocampo’s poems carry the same uncanny intelligence that makes her stories so memorable: domestic surfaces, childhood, cruelty, dream, wit, and a sense that ordinary rooms are never quite safe from transformation. Weiss’s translation lets the poems retain their elegance without erasing the oddness underneath. This is a valuable book because it complicates the idea of Ocampo as only a fiction writer. Her poetry shows another pressure in the same imagination, a lyric mode where fantasy and menace can appear in miniature. I would recommend it to readers who like their poems polished enough to gleam, but strange enough that the gleam begins to feel like a warning.

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