Oliverio Girondo authored seven innovative collections of poetry before his death in 1967. Born in Buenos Aires, he frequently traveled to Europe, where he was involved with both the French symbolists and the Spanish avant-garde. He was at the center of an Argentine vanguard focused around the influential journals Martin Fierro and Proa. He has two other collections available in English: Poems to Read on a Streetcar (New Directions) and In the Moremarrow (Action Books).
Harris Feinsod is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of a literary history, The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures, as well as many essays on modernist literature in Europe and the Americas. He is the director of Open Door Archive. His next book is a cultural history of modernism at sea.
Rachel Galvin is an award-winning poet, translator, and scholar. Her books include two collections of poetry, Pulleys & Locomotion and Elevated Threat Level; a work of criticism, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945; and Hitting the Streets, a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau, which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation. She is a co-founder of the Outranspo, an international creative translation collective, and assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Finalist for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award "In the fabled history of experimental South American literature, Girondo's En la masmédula stands alongside Trilce as a marker of the fruitful extremes to which that modernism--anywhere & everywhere--can take us."--Jerome Rothenberg "Girondo's poetry is a song to the transgressive imagination, an assault on routine. . . . Unlike other experimental artists, his gestures usually transcended mere provocation. His work not only paved the way for a rigorous vanguardia, with a profound theoretical basis, but it also took up the quotidian as a field of action, enriching it with an absurd humor that ties it to a Hispanic tradition that stretches from Quevedo and Gracián to Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Julio Cortázar, or Augusto Monterroso."--Andrés Neuman "Girondo's effectiveness undeniably frightens me. I came to his work from the suburbs of my own verse, from that long line of mine where there are sunsets and little lanes and a blurry girl who looks clear next to a sky-blue balustrade. I saw him as so skillful, so apt at hopping off a streetcar in full stride, being reborn safe and sound amid the menace of car horns and stepping away from the passing crowd, that I felt provincial next to him. . . . Girondo is a violent one. He looks on things at length and suddenly gives them a smack."--Jorge Luis Borges
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