PERLONGHER, Néstor. - Cadavers. Cadáveres.

Autor: PERLONGHER, Néstor.

Editorial: Cardboard House Press

Tema: Poesía. Ediciones indómitas

17 x 21 cm. Cardboard House Press, 2018. NUEVO. Translated from the Spanish by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman. Cover image and illustrations by Yudi Yudoyoko. Edición Bilingüe. Encuadernación rústica. La Loca whose queer opulence shatters categories and the liberating projects these prescribe, la Loca whose opulence citizens violate so as to constitute the very idea of citizenship, esta es la Loca whose opulence finds form in the life and work of Néstor Perlongher to sing Argentina its most proper public hymn. Cadavers in the streets, in the crotches, in the words, and in military helicopters about to be tossed – so goes a haunting toward “the preciseness of this absence.” To meet it, Perlongher lifts its perfect shadow in his mouth out of the ground. —FARID MATU. In ‘Cadavers,’ his long poem on the desaparecidos – the disappeared victims of Argentina’s military dictatorship – Perlongher does not seek to return their presence or whereabouts to those unnamed, absent corpses, but to restore their corporeity to them. He does so by means of a poetic language that can be as coarse and funny as it is ornate, bringing together such disparate elements as Góngora’s Baroque and the neighborhood hair salon, Rubén Darío’s Modernismo and Argentine public elementary schools. Legend has it that Perlongher wrote his poem on the interminable bus trip from Buenos Aires to São Paulo that would take him into exile from a regime that had paradoxically criminalized him not for his fierce political activism, but for his militant homosexuality. This gorgeous translation by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman retraces Perlongher’s journey, and finally brings his great poem to an English-speaking audience. — EZEQUIEL ZAIDENWERG. 44 páginas.