{"product_id":"decals-complete-early-poems-paperback","title":"Decals: Complete Early Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliverio Girondo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachel Galvin\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eHarris Feinsod\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and many others, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. A very cosmopolitan writer, his early poems--many of which are collected here for the first time in English--demonstrate his wanderlust, crisscrossing Europe and the Americas on streetcars, express trains, and ocean liners. Many of the poems in here were written in diverse world ports, and are perched at the seaside, among sailors, seagulls, and tango caf s. They take the reader on a tour of Spain that cleverly deflates the romantic glamour of the country found in Hemingway and Dos Passos, but reinvigorates it with a sexiness found in Girondo's intensive wordplay, Surrealistic influences, and idiosyncratic flare for metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliverio Girondo\u003c\/b\u003e authored seven innovative collections of poetry before his death in 1967. Born in Buenos Aires, he frequently traveled to Europe, where he was involved with both the French symbolists and the Spanish avant-garde. He was at the center of an Argentine vanguard focused around the influential journals \u003ci\u003eMartin Fierro\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProa.\u003c\/i\u003e He has two other collections available in English: \u003ci\u003ePoems to Read on a Streetcar\u003c\/i\u003e (New Directions) and \u003ci\u003eIn the Moremarrow\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarris Feinsod\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of a literary history, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as many essays on modernist literature in Europe and the Americas. He is the director of Open Door Archive. His next book is a cultural history of modernism at sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Galvin\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning poet, translator, and scholar. Her books include two collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003ePulleys \u0026amp; Locomotion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElevated Threat Level\u003c\/i\u003e; a work of criticism, \u003ci\u003eNews of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eHitting the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e, a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau, which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation. She is a co-founder of the Outranspo, an international creative translation collective, and assistant professor at the University of Chicago.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769853968672,"sku":"9781940953878","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c090e4de0af18b54d438256e20ea2f50.webp?v=1780358341","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/decals-complete-early-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}