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  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