Ova CompletaPaperback, 1 March 2021

Susana Thénon (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 humor and terror while writing obliquely of femicide, Argentina's last dictatorship, the Malvinas / Falklands war, the heritage of colonialism. Ova Completa is a collection full of stylistic innovation, language play, dark humor, and socio-political insight, or, as Thénon writes, "me on earth; me with the others; me ignorant, rude, all mixed in Latin, Greek, shit, noodles, culture, and barbarism."