Poetry.
Latinx Studies.
LGBTQIA Studies.
Translated from the Spanish by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman.
In CADAVERS, his long poem on the desaparecidos--the disappeared victims of Argentina's military dictatorship--Perlongher does not seek to return their presence or whereabouts to those unnamed, absent corpses, but to restore their corporeity to them.
He does so by means of a poetic language that can be as coarse and funny as it is ornate, bringing together such disparate elements as.