A Certain Roughness in Their Syntax: Poems by Jorge Aulicino (Tupelo Press Poetry in Translation) - Softcover

Aulicino, Jorge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946482021 ISBN 13: 9781946482020

Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2017

Synopsis

Splintering like light in a prism, the poems of Jorge Aulicino combine images of the Dirty War in Argentina, of historic Latin American independence struggles, and of the battles against fascism in Europe. Translated into English for the first time by poet Judith Filc working closely with Aulicino, this influential book (published in Spanish in 2008) is filled with the experiences of a grandson of European immigrants now chronicling a world where multitudinous cities are cracking under their own weight in an ongoing present whose common denominator is war. Testifying for the migrating masses he has called “pariahs of empire,” who traverse a globe with no stable borders, Aulicino’s lyrical “I” shifts between roles, exile or spy or reporter taking detailed notes.

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About the Author

Judith Filc was born and raised in Buenos Aires, earned a medical degree from Buenos Aires University, then decided to pursue a PhD in literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In Argentina she taught at the Urban Studies Institute of the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and in New York University's Buenos Aires Program. Since 2002 she has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Institute on Culture and Society, living in the Hudson Valley with her husband and son.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1946482021
• ISBN 13: 9781946482020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114