Ova Completa

Susana Thnon (1935-1991) is a key poet of the '60s generation in Argentina. In 'Ova Completa', her final, most radical collection, Thénon's poetics expands to incorporate all it touches - classical and popular culture, song lyrics and vulgarities, incoherence and musicality - embodying humour and terror while writing obliquely of femicide, Argentina's last dictatorship, the Malvinas/Falklands war, the heritage of colonialism. This is a collection full of stylistic innovation, language play, dark humour, and socio-political insight, or, as Thnon writes, 'me on earth; me with the others; me ignorant, rude, all mixed in Latin, Greek, shit, noodles, culture, and barbarism.'