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Materia PrimaAmanda Berenguer (ed. Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson) This is the first English language collection of Amanda Berenguer's poetry. A key contributor to Uruguay's famed literary Generacin del 45, Berenguer (1921 2010) stands among the most important post World War II poets of Latin America, along with her now legendary compatriot Marosa di Giorgio. Berenguer's poetry, stylistically and conceptually varied, ranges from classic, measured lyric to

an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard

where everything is lost and yet ‘nothing goes away’

including both new poems and beloved favourites

held in life

duister goederentransport en ongeduldig kapitaal worden de grenzen van een genadeloze kill zone uitgestippeld

published by UNESCO

waar dagboek en droom een vaak verontrustende verbinding aangaan

A special section of this edition is dedicated to her visual poems

' it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern condition at any point in the text – so rapid are its mutations

settler – on a roadtrip through American landscapes

MA speaks a furious incantation in the past tense

Dit schept een onontkoombaar spel tussen tekst en beeld