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*Cecilia Pavón has been a defining figure of the Argentine cultural scene since the 1990s. She is the author of over 10 volumes of poetry, 3 short story collections, and an anthology of blog posts, and was co-founder of the legendary art gallery and publishing press Belleza y Felicidad. Nine Ways to Cry collects Cecilia Pavón’s complete poetry published from 1999 to 2012 in one bilingual volume for the first time, including A Hotel With My Name, Licorice Candies, and other beloved classics. Prefaced by a loving foreword from contemporary US poet Dorothea Lasky, this collection serves as the definitive introduction to the poetry of a living legend. She currently lives in Buenos Aires.
*Jacob Steinberg is the author of the poetry collections Magulladón (2012), Ante ti se arrodilla mi silencio (2013), and Soy la bestia que adoro (2023). In 2014, Scrambler Books published Before You Kneels My Silence, a selection of his works in English. He has translated Cecilia Pavón, Mario Bellatin, and CAConrad, among others. Since 2020 he is co-director of Triana Editorial, an independent publishing house in Buenos Aires dedicated to contemporary poetry and translation. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
“I love the way Pavón probes the ordinary until it’s no longer banal.” —Chris Kraus
“Poetry that is singular, pressurized, and like no one else’s writing today.” —Dorothea Lasky
“Against cleanliness, against the monotony of formal innovation, against the dictates of well-wrought urns, these writings dance among poetic forms in the pursuit of intimate communication.” —Danny Snelson
