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

there’s an epic

to the world’s astonishment

Erudite and startling

Here life’s innumerable impressions

amongst other things

Een toevallige passant vraagt de auteur om wat kleding en eten

not allowed to live in the world above

In Viti's translation

je hoeft haar alleen maar te zien

if we let them

It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning

has been translating Ishii for over thirty years and captures the rhythmic pulse and turn of his “Poetry … harmful