Notes/Notas by Juan Gelman, translated by Arianna Afsari and Silvia R. Tandeciarz
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Autumn 2026 Jorie Graham transforming eye and ear for

transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other

thick with sound and sparkling with exploration

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hilarious and devastating look into some of the most private moments of a life--even if they happen to occur in a medical office with six strangers looking on

' – Max Porter

Notes/Notas by Juan Gelman, translated by Arianna Afsari and Silvia R. Tandeciarz <br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Autumn 2026</b> Jorie Graham transforming eye and ear forPublished 9 July 2026 This bilingual edition makes Juan Gelman's hauntingly beautiful exilic poetry collection, Notes Notas, available to English speaking audiences in its entirety for the first time. With a deep appreciation for Gelman's masterful language play, Afsari and Tandeciarz channel both the force of his poetic testimony against the real violence of Argentina's military dictatorship, and his lyrical conjuring of the possible. Interweaving