Sor Juana and Other Monsters by Luis Felipe Fabre and translated by John Pluecker

This is poetry from Mexico.

Sor Juana and Other Monsters by Luis Felipe Fabre translated by John Pluecker is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027766E12.

Luis Felipe Fabre’s Sor Juana and Other Monsters, translated by John Pluecker, is one of those books whose title does not merely gesture toward literary history; it wrestles with it. Sor Juana enters not as a museum figure but as one of the presences through which monstrosity, devotion, intellect, sexuality, and colonial inheritance can be reanimated. Fabre’s poetry often feels at ease with performance, argument, irreverence, and camp intelligence, and this book seems built for readers who want tradition made unstable again. Pluecker’s translation has to carry the sharpness of that performance into English without dulling the theological and bodily comedy beneath it. I would read this as a fierce, playful, learned book about what happens when the canon refuses to stay dead or decorous.

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