Floating Lanterns - Softcover

Roffe, Mercedes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848613725 ISBN 13: 9781848613720

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2014

Synopsis

When Las linternas flotantes (Floating Lanterns) was first published, in 2009, Mercedes Roffé explained that the book was "a reaction to things that left us speechless: September 11, Argentina's economic debacle that led to long
months of national and individual hardship and incertitude, the tsunami,
Hurricane Katrina, and so many things that seemed to come together in just a few years, things
 that were so disastrous for the whole world." Like Jeremiah, the prophet of the Book of Lamentations, who mourns the destruction of Jerusalem through the use of acrostics, dirge and communal lament, Roffé, of Sephardic Jewish origins, attends to these "things that left us speechless" through elegy and meditation.

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About the Author

Mercedes Roffé (Buenos Aires, 1954) is one of Argentina's most important and internationally recognized contemporary poets. Her works include Poemas (1977), El tapiz (published under the heteronym, Ferdinand Oziel, 1983), Cámara baja (1987; 1996), La noche y las palabras (1996; 1998), Definiciones Mayas (1999), Antología poética (2000), Canto errante (2002), Memorial de agravios (2002), La ópera fantasma (2005; 2012), Las linternas flotantes (2009) and the volume of selected works, Milenios caen de su vuelo (2005). Mansión nocturna, a second volume of collected works, is forthcoming from Monte ávila in 2015. Among other distinctions, Roffé was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry (2001) and, more recently, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Center residency fellowship (2012). Roffé lives in New York City and is the founding director of Ediciones Pen Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848613725
• ISBN 13: 9781848613720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98