Hotel Lautreamont—Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Edited by Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren. Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-French poet who wrote Maldoror under the name Comte de Lautreamont, and with a knowing nod to John Ashbery's book of the same title, this is the first major English-language survey of contemporary Uruguayan poetry for some 40 years, and features the work of Roberto Appratto, Nancy Bacelo, Amanda Berenguer, Selva Casal, Marosa Di Giorgio, Roberto Echavarren, Eduardo Espina, Gustavo Espinosa, Silvia Guerra, Circe Maia, Eduardo Milan and Idea Vilarino. The translators are Roman Antopolsky, Daniel Borzutzky, Gillian Brassil, Susan Briante, Mary Crow, Ryan Daley, Monica de la Torre, Anna Deeny, Kristin Dykstra, Michelle Gil-Montero, Charles Hatfield, Laura Healy, Farid Matuk, John Oliver Simon, Jeannine Pitas and Alex Verdolini. Hotel Lautr?amont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay Hotel Lautreamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay