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Etchevarren, Javier

 
9780900575952: Fable of an Inconsolable Man

Synopsis

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Poverty Studies. Urban Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval. "IN FABLE OF AN INCONSOLABLE MAN, Uruguayan poet Javier Etchevarren combines clear–eyed realism with a survivor's imaginative streak to take on the poverty and violence threaded through his own childhood in Montevideo. 'When one is honest, the world is a miser,' he writes. And despite his commitment to unblemished toughness, still, there are moments of transformation and grace in here when a mother grows extra arms to save her children, a boy becomes a beloved dead dog, and a child comes to know the world by reading wondrous encyclopedias in the library his mother cleans. Etchevarren's poems are vibrant psalms of perseverance and grit." — Erika Meitner

"In [these] poems, I feel my own struggles toward adulthood and the loneliness of such a road. Reading these emotionally deft and beautiful poems make me feel less alone." — Nate Marshall

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About the Author

Javier Etchevarren was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1979. He is the author of the poetry books Desidia (Yaugaru, 2009), Fabula de un hombre desconsolado (Yaugaru, 2014) and Ruidoso Luz (Yaugaru, 2016). His poems have appeared in America invertida: An Anthology of Younger Uruguayan Poets (University of New Mexico Press, 2016), Palabras errantes, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Daily, The Colorado Review and Waxwing.

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