Notes / Notas

Discover Argentina’s award-winning, revolutionary poet Juan Gelman

Juan Gelman’s Notes / Notas captures the sorrow and violence of Argentina's 1976 military dictatorship; translated for the first time into English, this collection is renowned for its linguistic innovation.

'One of the greatest poets the world has today.' —José Saramago, Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

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 reflections on revolution, loss and memory, Argentina’s poet laureate conjures forth a sense of hope in the wake of inconceivable suffering.