A Certain Roughness in Their Syntax

Auteur

Jorge Aulicino, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1949, has played a crucial role in Argentine and Latin American poetry for more than thirty years, working as a poet, translator, journalist, and editor. He has published more than twenty books of his own poems and translated the work of Cesare Pavese, Pier Paolo Passolini, Guido Cavalcanti, John Keats, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore, along with Dante's Divine Comedy. In 2014 he was awarded the Argentine National Library Award, and in 2015 the National Poetry Prize.

Texte du rabat

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.