Many Poems

Author: Roberta Iannamico

Translator: Alexis Almeida

Publisher: The Song Cave (2025)

Acclaimed Argentinian poet Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems animates the particulars of an imaginary world that lives deeply inside this one, where objects acquire voices, seasons move simultaneously across rural landscapes, and a mother and daughter share a unique vision of the past and present. Considering the ways joy interacts with its afterlives and fantasy creates different shapes of grief—a particularly snowy day, the methods of lighting a cigarette, a gentle rain, a naked woman asleep in a field—Iannamico taps into poetry’s distinctive ability to magically transform daily scenes into purely ecstatic visions. Whether the world of her poems is wide awake or asleep (or sometimes both), she softly imbues a dreamlike quality into every line. Masterfully translated by Alexis Almeida, Many Poems is Iannamico's first full-length book to be published in English, and marks the long overdue introduction of a major Latin American poet to English-language readers.