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Translated by Rebekah Smith.Afterword by Mara Negroni (Ugly Duckling Presse, paperback)

Publication Date: March 1, 2021

Publisher Marketing:Susana Thnon (19351991) is a key poet of the ’60s generation in Argentina. In OVA COMPLETA, her final, most radical collection, Thnon’s poetics expands to incorporate all it touchesclassical and popular culture, lyrics to songs and vulgarities, incoherence and musicalityembodying humor and terror while writing obliquely of femicide, Argentina’s last dictatorship, the Malvinas / Falklands war, the heritage of colonialism. Or, as Thnon writes, “me on earth; me with the others; me ignorant, rude, all mixed in Latin, Greek, shit, noodles, culture and barbarism…” OVA COMPLETA is a collection full of stylistic innovation, language play, dark humor, and socio-political insight, now available to English-language readers for the first time.

“A fragmented textual surface, a language all too common, a violent humor, and a voice multiple and heterogeneous.”Delfina Muschietti

“Experiments with language, with writing, with discursive genres, with situations and communicative actions or with pragmatic effects … a bleak and acidic gaze on a world that ‘enduringuntil when?it destroys itself’ and that incessantly longs to see reconstruction rising up over destruction.”Ana Mara Barrenechea