Ova completa
By: Susana Thénon ; translated by Rebekah Smith
Edition: First edition, First printing, 2021.
Series: Lost Literature Series -- No. 32; Lost literature series -- #32
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Translations into English; Argentine poetry
Description: "Susana Thénon (1935-1991) is a key poet of the '60s generation in Argentina. In Ova Completa, her final, most radical collection, Thénon's poetics expands to incorporate all it touches--classical and popular culture, song lyrics and vulgarities, incoherence and musicality--embodying humor and terror while writing obliquely of femicide, Argentina's last dictatorship, the Malvinas / Falklands war, the heritage of colonialism. Ova Completa is a collection full of stylistic innovation, language play, dark humor, and socio-political insight, or, as Thénon writes, 'me on earth; me with the others; me ignorant, rude, all mixed in Latin, Greek, shit, noodles, culture, and barbarism.'"--Publisher's website, viewed July 28, 2021.
Notes: "Originally published in Spanish as 'Ova completa' (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1987)"--title page verso.

"Cover design by Ruby Kapka. Typesetting by Doormouse. The type is Hoefler Text. Printed and bound by McNaughton & Gunn."--Colophon

Includes bibliographical references.

Purchase; Ugly Duckling Presse; 2021 May 20; 2022P-22; Aloian Book Fund.

"Susana Thénon (1935-1991) was a poet, translator, and photographer. She is considered part of the Argentine generation of the 60s, alongside contemporaries Alejandra Pizarnik and Juana Bignozzi, though she was never formally aligned with any particular group. She published five books of poetry: Edad sin tregua (1958), Habitante de la nada (1959), De lugares extraños (1967), distancias (1984), and Ova completa (1987). Between her publications of 1967 and 1984, she took a break from poetry, focusing instead on photography, especially photography of the dancer Iris Scaccheri. One of these photos appears on the cover of her book, distancias, and a book Acerca de Iris Scaccheri was published in Buenos Aires by Ediciones Anzilotti in 1988. Distancias was translated into English by Renata Treitel and published by Sun & Moon Press (Los Angeles, CA) in 1994. Thénon's work was collected and published in two volumes entitled La morada imposible, edited by Ana M. Barrenechea and María Negroni (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001). Some of her poems have also appeared in English in the collections, The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), The Helicon Nine Reader (Kansas City: Helicon Nine Editions, 1990), and Crossings (San Francisco: Center for Art in Translation, 2000). "--Publisher's website, viewed July 28, 2021.

"Rebekah Smith is a writer, editor, and translator based in New York City."--Publisher's website, viewed July 28, 2021.

"María Negroni has published several books of poetry and essays, and two novels. Islandia (Station Hill Press), Night Journey (Princeton University Press), Andanza (The Tango Lyrics) (Quattro Books), Mouth of Hell (Action Books), and The Annunciation (Action Books) have appeared in English translation. Her work has also been translated into Swedish, Portuguese, Italian and French. Negroni received a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry in 1994, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1998, the Fundación Octavio Paz fellowship for poetry in 2001, and The New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2005. She also received a National Book Award for her collection of poems El viaje de la noche, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for Islandia, and the Siglo XXI International Prize for Non-Fiction for Galería Fantástica. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1999 to 2014, and is now directing the first Creative Writing Program to exist in Argentina at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero."--Publisher's website, viewed July 28, 2021.

Poems in English translation, followed by the original Spanish text.

As issued, bound in illustrated printed stiff rose paper; in prefab, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Ova completa  -- Susana Thenon (translated by Rebekah Smith) ;; title: Ova completa  -- Susana Thenon ;; title: Ova completa: a feast of meaning  -- Maria Negroni ;; title: The whole Ova  -- Rebekah Smith ;; title: Translator's acknowledgments.