Ova Completa

By Susana Thénon

Book Overview

Poetry. Afterword by Mar a Negroni. Translated by Rebekah Smith. Susana Th non (1935-1991) is a key poet of the '60s generation in Argentina. In OVA COMPLETA, her final, most radical collection, Th non's poetics expands to incorporate all it touches--classical and popular culture, lyrics to songs and vulgarities, incoherence and musicality--embodying humor and terror while writing obliquely of femicide, Argentina's last dictatorship, the Malvinas / Falklands war, the heritage of colonialism. Or, as Th non writes, "me on earth; me with the others; me ignorant, rude, all mixed in Latin, Greek, shit, noodles, culture and barbarism..." OVA COMPLETA is a collection full of stylistic innovation, language play, dark humor, and socio-political insight, now available to English-language readers for the first time.

"A fragmented textual surface, a language all too common, a violent humor, and a voice multiple and heterogeneous."--Delfina Muschietti

"Experiments with language, with writing, with discursive genres, with situations and communicative actions or with pragmatic effects ... a bleak and acidic gaze on a world that 'enduring--until when?--it destroys itself' and that incessantly longs to see reconstruction rising up over destruction."--Ana Mar a Barrenechea

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946433543
• ISBN13: 9781946433541
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 7.9"