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Poems to Read on a Streetcar
Oliverio Girondo
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Description for Poems to Read on a Streetcar
Paperback. Translator(s): Cleary, Heather. Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110.
Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, Girondo is one of the pioneers of Latin American literature. This selection offers a glimpse of a precise and playful writer who insisted that a poem “should be constructed like a watch and sold like a sausage.”
Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, Girondo is one of the pioneers of Latin American literature. This selection offers a glimpse of a precise and playful writer who insisted that a poem “should be constructed like a watch and sold like a sausage.”
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Condition
New
Series
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811221771
SKU
V9780811221771
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Oliverio Girondo
Oliverio Girondo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1891, and the author of seven innovative books of poetry. He traveled often to Europe where he forged ties with the French Symbolists and the Spanish avant-garde. Girondo eventually died from injuries sustained in a 1964 car accident in 1967. Heather Cleary won a PEN Translation Fund Award for her translations ... Read more
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