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Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo
Translated from Spanish by Jason Weiss
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.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9781590177747