Description
NINE WAYS TO CRY collects Cecilia Pavón’s complete poetry published from 1999 to 2012.
Nine Ways to Cry collects Cecilia Pavón’s complete poetry published from 1999 to 2012 in one bilingual volume for the first time, including A Hotel With My Name, Licorice Candies, and other beloved classics. Prefaced by a loving foreword from contemporary US poet Dorothea Lasky, this collection serves as the definitive introduction to the poetry of a living legend.
"I love the way that Pavón probes the ordinary until it's no longer banal." —Chris Krause
"Poetry that is singular, pressurized, and like no one else's writing today." —Dorothea Laskey
Poetry. Latinx Studies.
Author Bio
Cecilia Pavón has been a defining figure of the Argentine cultural scene since the 1990s. She is the author of over 10 volumes of poetry, 3 short story collections, an anthology of blog posts, and was co-founder of the legendary art gallery and publishing press Belleza y Felicidad. She currently lives in Buenos Aires.
Author City: BUENOS AIRES ARG
Jacob Steinberg is a writer and translator. He has translated Cecilia Pavón, Mario Bellatin, and CAConrad, among others. Since 2020 he is co-director of Triana Editorial, an independent publishing house in Buenos Aires dedicated to contemporary poetry and translation. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Author City: USA