Vision Of The Children Of Evil

Synopsis

Simultaneously Prophetic And Blasphemous, Vision Of The Children Of Evil By Miguel Ángel Bustos Presents A Mystical Rejoinder To The Inequities Of The Americas, A Revision Of History Through The Motif Of Divine Descent, As Relevant And Revolutionary Today As When The Poems First Debuted In The 1960s. In Bustos's Poetry, Language Is Both A Tool Of Subjugation And A Device To Conjure A Strange World That Transcends The One We Only Think We Know. And Like A Postcolonial Rimbaud, He Repurposes Symbols To Develop His Own: Universal, Synesthetic, And Above All, Musical. Polyvocal, Intertextual, And Hybrid In Form, These Books Span Aphoristic Fragments, Prose Poems, Lyrical Prose Chapters, And Linguistically Experimental Free Verse, Voicing Spanish Colonizers And Invented Indigenous Characters Alike. In This Bilingual Dual Edition Featuring Both Fantastical Fragments (1965) And Vision Of The Children Of Evil (1967), Anglophone Readers Have Their First Opportunity To Experience Bustos's Poetry, As The Poet Fell Victim To A Double Silencing In Argentina-he Was Disappeared At The Beginning Of The 1976 Military Dictatorship And, Subsequently, His Work Was Suppressed And His Name Absented From The Literary Record. Lucina Schell's Translations Are Nothing Short Of Extraordinary-urgent, Adept, And Possessing The Necessary Temerity To Match Wits With A Poetic Voice As Strident As Bustos's. A Poète Maudit Whose Untimely Death Was Ironically Brought On By His Leftist Politics, Miguel Ángel Bustos Reinvents The Origin Myth Of Argentina-and The Americas-laying Bare All Its Promise, All Its Pain.