A SEA AT DAWN

Silvia Guerra / Translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas and Jesse Lee Kercheval

Silvia Guerra (1961, Maldonado, Uruguay) is among the most influential figures in Uruguayan poetry today. This translation, a panoramic selection of poems from nine books, presents Guerra as one of Latin America’s dauntless poets of language. This tour-de-force translation engages Guerra’s stunning range of forms and tendencies—neopastoral, neobarrocoand even a fictional biography of Lautréamont—while joining the poet as she courts complexity, opacity, nothingness, and the sublime.

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Publication date: September 15, 2023