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Nettles by Luisa Futoransky

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Luisa Futoransky is a poet of lived experience above all, though not hers alone; other voices inhabit the work, whether of friends, lovers, fellow travellers (people she met or figures from history and literature). Like her fiction, the poetry employs a direct language rooted in anecdote and reflection, while sometimes delighting in playful experimentalism. Hers are mosaic narratives, made of pieces, fragments. Something else to notice in Nettles is her flair for the theatrical, especially acute when she writes in shorter forms. Surely her studies of opera helped to hone her instinct for the dramatic gesture. But to think that we start in Rome with this book only to end up in Ohio. That is some sense of humour.

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Published January 1, 1864

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Luisa Futoransky

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Luisa Futoransky (Buenos Aires, 5 de enero de 1939) es una poetisa y escritora argentina.

Estudia música en el "Conservatorio Municipal de Buenos Aires" con Cátulo Castillo, de 1953 a 1961. De 1965 a 1968 estudia poesía anglosajona contemporánea y antigua con Jorge Luis Borges en la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Se recibe de abogada en la misma Universidad. Obtiene una beca de la Universidad de Iowa, EEUU.

En Roma, Italia, estudia poesía contemporánea en la Universidad de Roma y en la Academia Chighiana, Siena.

Se radica en Francia, trabajando en el Centro Georges Pompidou, y como redactora de la agencia de noticias France Presse.

Ha colaborado en diversos medios literarios y periodísticos: Ars, L'Ane, Página/30, Página/12, Clarín, El Correo de la Unesco, World Fiction, Hispamérica, Basel Zeitung. Y trabajos para Radio France, el Ministerio de Cultura Francés y Radio Euskadi de España.

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