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Materia prima

Title
Materia prima / selected poems of Amanda Berenguer ; edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson ; translated by Gillian Brassil ... [and 7 others].
Author
Berenguer, Amanda
Publication
  • Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, [2019]
  • Berkeley, California : Distributed by SPD/Small Press Distribution
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Dykstra, Kristin
  • Johnson, Kent
  • Brassil, Gillian
  • Deeny, Anna, 1973-
  • Noel, Urayoán
  • Pitas, Jeannine Marie
  • Torre, Mónica de la
  • Verdolini, Alex
  • Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher
Description
xvii, 247 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
  • An anthology of poems by Amanda Berenguer that features her fascination with cosmology and non-orientable objects in geometry (the Möbius strip, the Klein bottle) as well as her concrete and visual poetry. This collection is edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson, with translations by Gillian Brassil, Anna Deeny Morales, Mónica de la Torre, Kristin Dykstra, Kent Johnson, Urayoán Noel, Jeannine Marie Pitas, and Alex Verdolini. The volume also includes an introduction by Roberto Echavarren and an interview conducted by Silvia Guerra.
  • "Materia Prima is the first English-language collection of Amanda Berenguer's poetry. A key contributor to Uruguay's famed literary Generación del 45, Berenguer (1921-2010) stands among the most important post-World War II poets of Latin America, along with her now-legendary compatriot Marosa di Giorgio. Berenguer's poetry, stylistically and conceptually varied, ranges from classic, measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomic utterance; from metaphysical and erotic rhetorical effusion to condensed and radically concrete experiment; from seemingly apolitical languor to pointed ideological dissent. The poems included in this edition span a large portion of Berenguer's career and are taken from eight books, and an additional section dedicated to her visual poems."--Publisher's website (viewed 2019 June 3).
Series Statement
Lost literature series ; no 24
Uniform Title
Lost literature series ; #24.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Poetry.
  • Poems – 20th century.
  • Poems – 21st century.
  • Translations.
  • Zines.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Spanish and English translations on facing pages.
Contents
Editors' introduction -- Notes on the translations -- Amanda Berenguer: Some notes by way of preface / by Roberto Berenguer -- Books by Amanda Berenguer -- from "Prime matter" -- from "Composition of place and other visual poems" -- from "The lady of Elche" -- from "With the tiger among my things" -- from "The green bottle" -- from "The keeper of the flame" -- Interview: The table: A mad dance of electrons / Silvia Guerra interviews Amanda Berenguer ; translation by Jeannine Marie Pitas -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- About the translators
Call Number
JFD 19-5339
ISBN
  • 9781946433060
  • 1946433063
OCLC
1057740800
Author
Berenguer, Amanda, author.
Title
Materia prima / selected poems of Amanda Berenguer ; edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson ; translated by Gillian Brassil ... [and 7 others].
Publisher
Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, [2019]
Distributor
Berkeley, California : Distributed by SPD/Small Press Distribution
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Lost literature series ; no 24
Lost literature series ; #24.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Biography
"Amanda Berenguer (1921 - 2010) was a vital presence in Uruguayan literary life for more than six decades. She is a key figure in the "Generation of 1945," known around the world for its energetic experimentation. Her first book appeared in Montevideo in 1940, followed by a steady stream of collections recognized for their excellence. Awards for her contributions included, among many others, the prestigious international Casa de las Américas Prize for Poetry (1986) and two national Uruguayan prizes for her collection La dama de Elche. Berenguer's lifelong dedication to the arts included work with little presses and radio programming, as well as collaborations with dancers and musicians. She is widely regarded, in her country and beyond, as one of Uruguay's greatest poets."--Publisher's website (viewed 2019 June 3).
"Kristin Dykstra is the principal translator of Reina María Rodríguez's The Winter Garden Photograph (UDP, 2019), and, with Kent Johnson, she is co-editor of Amanda Berenguer's Materia Prima (UDP, 2018). She is the translator of Cubanology, a book of days by Omar Pérez (Station Hill Press), and Other Letters to Milena, a mixed-genre book by Reina María Rodríguez published by University of Alabama Press, which has also published her translations of Cuban authors Juan Carlos Flores, Ángel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales. She is guest editor of "Out of Alamar," a dossier dedicated to Flores (1962 - 2016) in Chicago Review. The recipient of an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, Dykstra won the inaugural Gulf Coast Prize for Literary Translation."--Publisher's website (viewed 2019 June 3).
"Kent Johnson is co-editor of Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Homage to the Pseudo Avant-Garde, a collection of poems, both published by Dispatches Editions. In 2015 UDP released a pamphlet of his annotated translation of César Vallejo's only known interview."--Publisher's website (viewed 2019 June 3).
Language
Spanish and English translations on facing pages.
Local Note
Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook and zine collection.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Added Author
Dykstra, Kristin, editor, writer of introduction, translator.
Johnson, Kent, editor, writer of introduction, translator.
Brassil, Gillian, translator.
Deeny, Anna, 1973- translator.
Noel, Urayoán, translator.
Pitas, Jeannine Marie, translator.
Torre, Mónica de la, translator.
Verdolini, Alex, translator.
Container of (expression): Berenguer, Amanda. Poetry. Selections. Spanish.
Container of (expression): Berenguer, Amanda. Poetry. Selections. English.
Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
Research Call Number
JFD 19-5339
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