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Autor: Luis Felipe Fabre
Editorial: Señal
Lenguaje: Español
ISBN13: 9781937027766
Reseña: Poetry. Womens Studies. Translated from the Spanish by John Pluecker. In seventeenth century colonial-era Mexico Sor Juana Ines de la Cruzs visionary and passionate verse assured her a seminal place in the literary canon. Luis Felipe Fabre has reimagined this mysterious figure so often appropriated and dissected by academics and literati. Fabres poems are built out of sixteenth century octosyllabic tetrameter and pulp novels out of horror movie trailers and pompous academic papers out of Medusas and dreams Bat Sisters and rhymes. But more than that they are made of language a language brimming with irony black humor and dread as he reflects on the many transformations of Sor Juana and of Mexico itself. As a conduit for future translations of this caliber Senal is a sign of hope for English readers... Fabres poems likely approach the pinnacle of such an endeavor. Matt Bucher Molossus
