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Letters from Latin America
Reviews of poetry by Argentinean Silvina Lopez Medin and Chilean Yanko Gonzalez
Yanko Gonzalez and Silvina Lopez Medin
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
POEM That Never Ends (Essay Press, £12) is award-winning Argentinean poet, translator and playwright Silvina Lopez Medin’s fourth poetry collection.
An illuminating and expansive collection of lyrical fragments stitched together, the book tells the story of the poet’s mother and grandmother, as well as her own. The story unravels as Medin manages to piece together the complex relationships on her maternal side through letters, phone conversations, family photographs, works of art and personal anecdotes.
We learn of her Paraguayan seamstress grandmother, of how she abandoned her young daughter who was only three years of age to her aunts and how that deaf daughter grew up in Argentina.
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