The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems/El shock de los Lender y otras poemas by Jorge Perednik and translated by Molly Weigel

This is poetry from Argentina.

The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems/El shock de los Lender y otras poemas by Jorge Perednik 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 9.780983148081E12.

Jorge Perednik’s The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems, translated by Molly Weigel, belongs to the sharper, stranger side of Argentine experimental poetry. The bilingual title already suggests friction: finance, language, cultural traffic, and the little electric jolt that happens when borrowed forms begin to behave unpredictably. Perednik’s work is not content to let the poem sit as a pretty object. It pushes against syntax, social language, and the expected pathways of meaning. Weigel’s translation keeps that rough energy alive, which matters because a smoother version would betray the book’s intelligence. This is poetry for readers interested in difficulty as play, critique, and sonic disturbance. The Shock of the Lenders is not trying to be merely obscure. It is trying to make the systems around speech feel briefly visible, ridiculous, and unstable.

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