Current Southern Cone Drama and Poetry
Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
Bellessi,
Diana (Argentina, 1946-)
Tener lo
que se tiene: poesía
reunida.
Ed. by Sonia Scarabelli and
Daniel García Helder. Preliminary study by
Jorge Monteleone. Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo, first edition, 2009,
1,202p., notes. Ser. La lengua / poesía. [Poetry. Contains
Bellessi’s
poetry from her 1981 collection Crucero ecuatorial to the 2005 La
rebelión del instante, as well as her newest work. Her
distinctions
include a 1993 Guggenheim grant.]
ISBN:
9789871556014 $56.00
Benedetti,
Mario (Uruguay, 1920-2009)
Inventario
Cuatro: Poesía
completa 2002-2006.
Madrid: Visor, first edition,
2009, 492p. Col. Visor de Poesía; 716.
[Poetry. The fourth and final Inventario, containing the collections
Insomnios y duermevelas (2002), Existir todavía (2004), Defensa
propia
(2005) and Adioses y bienvenidas (2006). The three preceding
Inventarios were published in 1963, 1994 and 2003, respectively. A
member of the Uruguayan Generation of 1945, Benedetti won the 2000
Premio Reina Sofia de Poesía Iberoamericana, among other awards.]
ISBN:
9788498957167 $46.10
Biagioni,
Amelia (Argentina, 1916-2000)
Poesía
completa.
Ed. by Valeria Melchiorre.
Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo, first
edition, 2009, 591p., notes. Ser. La lengua / poesía. [Poetry.
The
complete poetic work of Argentine poet, and winner of the 1967 Premio
Jorge Luis Borges. Her work includes the collections Sonata de soledad
(1954), El humo (1967) and Región de fugas (1995), among others.]
ISBN:
9789871556205 $42.50
Brandy,
Carlos (Uruguay, 1923-)
Pescador
de sombras.
Prol. by Jorge Arias.
Montevideo: Trilce, 1st ed., 2009, 51p. Col. Los
premiados de Fondos Concursables. [Poetry. Collected poetry, winner of
the 2008 Premio de Fondos Concursables. Brandy, associated with the
Uruguayan Generation of 1945, is the author of the collections Rey Humo
(1948), Con la violencia de la luz (1973) and Una sombra una
ficción
(2001), among others.]
ISBN:
9789974325005 $18.40
Bravo-Elizondo,
Pedro; Berry-Bravo, Judy (Comps.)
Saga de
los pampinos: antología
crítica del teatro salitrero.
Iquique: Univ. Arturo Prat,
first edition, 2007, 366p., notes. [Drama.
A critical collection of three plays from northern Chile, chosen for
their relevance to the mining communities. Contains the plays Santa
María del Salitre by Sergio Arrau Castillo, La Reina Isabel
cantaba
rancheras by Hernán Rivera Letelier and Coruña, la ira de
los vientos
by Iván Vera-Pinto Soto. The compilers are professors at Wichita
State
and Pittsburg State Univ., respectively.]
ISBN:
9789563020557 $24.00
Cabrera,
Mónica (Argentina, 1958-)
Arrabalera
y otros unipersonales.
Critical study by Patricia
Espinosa. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue,
first edition, 2009, 161p., biblio., chrono. Col. Colihue Teatro. Ser.
Dramaturgias argentinas. [Drama. Five plays by Argentine playwright,
director and actress: Arrabalera (2002), El Club de las Bataclanas
(2001), El sistema de la víctima (2007), ¡Dolly
Guzmán no está muerta!
(2007) and Limosna de amores (2008). Also includes a critical study by
Patricia Espinosa.]
ISBN:
9789505635122 $24.20
Cabuchi,
Susana (Argentina, 1948-)
Detrás
de
las máscaras.
Córdoba: Ediciones del Copista,
1st ed., 2008, 74p. Col. Fénix; 52.
[Poetry. Latest poetry collection by Argentine poet Cabuchi. Her
previous work includes El corazón de las manzanas (1978) and El
dulce
país y otros poemas (2004), among others.]
ISBN:
9789875632042 $27.50
Daulte,
Javier (Argentina, 1963-)
Caperucita.
Preliminary study by María
Florencia Heredia. Buenos Aires: Corregidor,
first edition, 2009, 119p., biblio., notes. Col. Los fundamentales del
teatro argentino; 10. [Drama. Latest by Argentine playwright Daulte,
winner of the Premio ACE, the Premio Martín Fierro and the
Premio
Clarín, among others. He most recently published the second
volume of
his complete dramatic work Teatro 2 (2007).]
ISBN:
9789500518284 $23.50
Donoso,
José (Chile, 1924-1996)
Poemas de
un novelista.
Prol. by Jorge Edwards. Madrid:
Bartleby Editores, second edition,
2009, (c. 1981, Ganymedes), 90p., notes, b&w photos. Col.
Poesía.
[Poetry. Collected poetry by this Boom author, and member of the
Chilean Generation of the 1950s. Contains poetry written between 1952
and 1979. Edwards, a close friend of Donoso, provides a new prologue in
addition to the one included in the original 1981 edition.]
ISBN:
9788495408969 $26.00
Hernández,
Paola S.
El teatro
de Argentina y Chile:
globalización, resistencia y desencanto.
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 1st
ed., 2009, 204p., biblio., notes. Col.
Nueva Investigación Teatral; 2. [Theater studies. On the
relationship
between theater and sociopolitical/cultural movements in contemporary
Argentina and Chile. Examines how dramatic work portrays political and
economic concerns. Studies Roberto Cossa’s La nona (1977) and
Benjamín
Galemiri’s Los principios de la fe (2001), among other plays.
Hernández
is a professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison.]
ISBN:
9789500518260 $28.50
Huenún
Villa, Jaime (Comp.)
Antología
de
poesía indígena
latinoamericana: Los Cantos Ocultos.
Santiago: LOM, first edition,
2008, 215p., notes. Col. Entre Mares.
[Poetry. Collected contemporary indigenous poetry, compiled by
Huenún
Villa, winner of the 2003 Premio Pablo Neruda de Poesía.
Contains poems
in their original indigenous language, with Spanish translation. Covers
award-winning poets Lorenzo Aillapán, César Cabello
Salazar, Odi
González and Miguel Ángel López-Hernández,
among others.]
ISBN:
9789560000163 $20.00
Jitrik,
Noé (Argentina, 1928-)
Cálculo
equivocado:
poemas
1983-2008.
Prol. by Rodolfo Alonso. Buenos
Aires: FCE, first edition, 2009, 387p.
Col. Tierra Firme. [Poetry. Contains the poetry collections
Última copa
y no va más (1983-89), El vals de otro tiempo (1994-96), El
tango del
filósofo (1997-98), Anatomías (2005-07), Ocasionales
(2002-04) and
Erráticas (2008). A noted critic and author, Jitrik’s
distinctions
include the 1981 Premio Xavier Villaurrutia.]
ISBN:
9789505578177 $35.60
Kostzer,
Kado; García-Ramírez, Sergio
Versiones
y diversiones: Moliére,
Shakespeare y Sheridan recreados.
Critical study by Jorge Dubatti.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue, first
edition, 2008, 180p., biblio., chrono., notes. Col. Colihue Teatro.
Ser. Dramaturgias argentinas. [Drama. Recreations of three classics:
The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, Le Malade imaginaire by
Moliére
and The School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan. Dramatists Kostzar and
García-Ramírez founded of the Cooperativa Argentina de
Comedias
Clásicas. Noted critic Dubatti provides a study of the authors.]
ISBN:
9789505635085 $26.50
Lukin,
Liliana (Argentina, 1951-)
Obra
reunida 1978-2008.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del
Dock, 1st ed., 2009, 374p., b&w photos,
b&w ill., b&w facsim. Col. Pez náufrago; 29. [Poetry.
The
complete poetic work of Argentine poet Lukin. From her 1978 collection
Abracadabra to the 2007 Teatro de operaciones. Her collection Carne de
tesoro (1990), also included, won the Premio Fundación
Antorchas.]
ISBN:
9789875591165 $35.00
Piña,
Cristina (Argentina, 1949-)
Magia
blanca.
Córdoba: Del Copista, 1st ed.,
2008, 89p. Col. Fénix; 51. [Poetry.
Newest collection by Argentine poet Piña, whose other titles
include
Oficio de máscaras (1979, Premio Isidoro R. Steimberg), Pie de
guerra
(1990) and most recently, Pasajera en tránsito (2006).]
ISBN:
9789875631922 $26.40
Puig,
Manuel (Argentina, 1932-1990)
Teatro
reunido.
Prol. by Jorge Dubatti. Buenos
Aires: Entropía, first edition, 2009,
236p. Col. Puig. [Drama. This award-winning Post-Boom author is noted
for combining elements of film, theater and popular culture into his
narrative, as well as for his use of colloquial Argentine language. He
is most well known for writing El beso de la mujer araña (1976).]
ISBN:
9789872479732 $34.20
Rotzait,
Perla (Argentina, 1920-)
Ella
ríe sin embargo: obra
reunida 1962/ 2008.
Buenos Aires: Bajo La Luna, 1st
ed., 2009, 528p., 519p., boxed set.
Ser. Poesía; 53. [Poetry. Two-volume boxed set of Perla
Rotzait’s
poetry. Vol. one contains work from the 1962 collection Cuando las
sombras to Puertas que se abren y otros poemas (1996). Vol. two begins
with Tu cabello de ceniza Sulamita (1999) and ends with two previously
unedited including Siete veces cero/ Siete veces noche.]
ISBN:
9789879108680 $51.50
Spregelburd,
Rafael (Argentina, 1970-)
La
terquedad: heptalogía de
Hieronymus Bosch VII.
Critical ed. by Jorge Dubatti.
Critical study by Guillermo Pisani.
Buenos Aires: Atuel, 1st ed., 2009, 203p., biblio., notes. Col. Atuel/
Teatro. [Drama. Seventh and final play in the series inspired by
Bosch’s The Seven Deadly Sins. Among Spregelburd’s award-winning plays,
the sixth in this series, La paranoia (2008) won the 2007 Premio Casa
de las Américas. Noted critic Dubatti provides the introduction.
Also
contains an interview with the author, several articles from a literary
journal, and a critical study by Guillermo Pisani.]
ISBN:
9789871155606 $29.80
Tabernise,
Oscar; Morales, Enrique
Teatro
tabernise-Morales: El clú.
Tócala de nuevo, cacho. Aristoafanadas.
Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 1st ed.,
2009, 257p., b&w ill. Col.
Dramaturgos; 1. [Drama. Three plays by Argentine playwrights Tabernise
and Morales: El clú (1992), Tócala de nuevo, cacho (1995)
and for the
first time in print Aristoafanadas. The playwrights also co-authored No
tan brujos (1993) and El Menefregazo (1994).]
ISBN:
9789875743458 $32.50
Various
Los poemas
finalistas del primer
concurso de poesía Alejandro G. Roemmers.
Prol. by María Esther Vázquez.
Buenos Aires: Victoria Ocampo, 1st ed.,
2009, 85p., biobiblio. [Poetry. Collected poems, all finalists in the
first Concurso de Poesía Alejandro G. Roemmers. Includes poetry
by
award-winners Marta Ortiz, Elena Cabrejas, Oscar Corbacho and Sol
Benarós.]
ISBN:
9789871198368 $26.50
Zangaro,
Patricia (Argentina, 1958-)
Por un
reino. Auto de fe... entre
bambalinas. Advientos. Tiempo de aguas. La hora nona. Miscelánea.
Buenos Aires: Losada, 1st ed.,
2008, 215p. Col. Nuevo Teatro. [Drama.
Collected dramatic work by Argentine playwright Zangaro. From her 1993
play Por un reino to the 2002 dramatic monologue Una estirpe de
petisas. She is a two-time winner of both the Primer Premio Municipal
(1986, 1988) and the Premio Leónidas Barletta (1991, 1996).]
ISBN:
9789500363365 $29.80