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Argentine poet, Luisa Futoransky, has a long-standing fascination with the urban in her poetry. The following poems are a taster of her forthcoming bilingual anthology, Cartografías sentimentales/Affective cartographies, which brings together her poems about cities. The poems composing this new anthology together create an affective map that spans both decades and continents, each city ultimately co-existing in this mnemonic and sentimental cartography in the present. Some of the poems in this sample are the fruit of a fleeting encounter with the cities in question. Others lay bare a much more intimate relationship to the surroundings: namely Paris, Luisa Futoransky’s current home, and Buenos Aires, the poet’s home city, which often bears an unspoken -almost spectral- presence in her work. Here, she unmasks the urban and takes us into the viscera of cities that take on a personality of their own.
Author(s): Futoransky L, Page P
Publication type: Creative Writing
Publication status: Published
Journal: Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura
Year: 2016
Volume: 31
Issue: 2
Pages: 233-243
Print publication date: 01/04/2016
Online publication date: 01/04/2016
Acceptance date: 30/11/2015
ISSN (print): 0888-6091
ISSN (electronic): 2328-6962
Publisher: Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Northern Colorado, USA.
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/617575
