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Letters From Latin America: November 7, 2019
Reviews of poetry and fiction by Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Carmen Gimenez Smith and Brenda Lozano
Outstanding: Carmen Gimenez Smith
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
PERUVIAN poet and artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson (1924-2006) travelled to Italy in 1951 for a summer holiday and decided to settle in Rome, where he wrote his poetic masterpiece Room in Rome (Cardboard House, £10).
Available for the first time in English, this collection shows Eielson’s ability to knot together many of the poet’s main themes as “quipus” (“talking knots”), recording devices made from strings historically used by cultures in Andean South America.
Eielson weaves personal history with geographic location, homosexual desire with longing, past and future, in a fashion that is as playful as it is profound.
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