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Synopsis
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by John Pluecker. In seventeenth century, colonial-era Mexico, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's 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. Fabre's 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, Señal is a sign of hope for English readers... Fabre's poems likely approach the pinnacle of such an endeavor."—Matt Bucher, Molossus
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Luis Felipe Fabre (1974) is a poet and critic based in Mexico City. He has published a volume of essays, Leyendo agujeros: Ensayos sobre (des)escritura, antiescritura y no escritura, and the poetry collections Cabaret Provenza, La sodomía en la Nueva España, and Poemas de terror y de misterio. He is the editor of two anthologies of contemporary Mexican poetry, Divino Tesoro and La Edad de Oro, and Arte & Basura, an anthology of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's poetry work. He has been curator of the Poesía en Voz Alta Festival and Todos los originales serán destruídos, an exhibition of contemporary art made by poets.
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Sor Juana and Other Monsters: An Academic Paper in Verse, Followed by Three Mash-Ups in Homage (Señal Chapbook No. 1, First Edition)
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Señal (Ugly Duckling Presse, BOMB Magazine, & Libros Antena Books), 2015
ISBN 10: 1937027767
ISBN 13: 9781937027766
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