The Song Cave

Acclaimed Argentinian poet Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems animates the particulars of an imaginary world that lives deeply inside this one, where objects acquire voices, seasons move simultaneously across rural landscapes, and a mother and daughter share a unique vision of the past and present. Considering the ways joy interacts with its afterlives and fantasy creates different shapes of grief—a particularly snowy day, the methods of lighting a cigarette, a gentle rain, a naked woman asleep in a field—Iannamico taps into poetry’s distinctive ability to magically transform daily scenes into purely ecstatic visions.