Poem That Never Ends

Literary Nonfiction. Sparked by the only two letters--out of over a hundred-that López Medin's mother saved from her own mother in Paraguay, POEM THAT NEVER ENDS weaves together poems and family photos to explore the fragmentation of time, memory, and mother-child relationships. Fragments, family hearing impairments, ripped-up letters, and living and writing between languages point to the inescapable holes in language, troubling the notion of a finite utterance. Layering elements of painting, cinema, and the elusive three dimensions of theater into the weave, POEM THAT NEVER ENDS traces a sequence of mothers-López Medin's mother, her mother's mother, herself as a mother-in a porous, restless gesture toward what's never fully grasped.

Author: Silvina Lopez Medin
Publisher: Essay Press
Published: 04/30/2021
Pages: 85
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781734498448

About the Author
Medin, Silvina Lopez: - Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. Her books of poetry include: La noche de los bueyes (Madrid; 1999); winner of the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize; Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (Buenos Aires; 2014; That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove; tr. Jasmine V. Bailey; Carnegie Mellon University Press; 2021); 62 brazadas (Buenos Aires; 2015); and Excursión (Buenos Aires; 2021). Excursión was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize (Oversound; 2020). Her hybrid poetry book THE POEM THAT NEVER ENDS was a winner of the Essay Press/University of Washington Bothell Contest (Essay Press; 2021). Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo; 2008) was granted the Plays Third Prize by the Argentine Institute of Theatre. She co- translated Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet (2015) into Spanish. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares; Hyperallergic; BrooklynRail; and MoMA/post; among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU and is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

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