Expendables

by Daniel Beauregard (Editor), Thomas Rothe (Translator), Laura Theobald (Contributor)

Originally written in Spanish, Expendables (Temporarias) is a collection of poetry left unfinished by Emma Villazón before her unexpected passing in 2015. Translated into English by Thomas Rothe, the book is a patchwork of poems written from the perspective of multiple women workers, exploring the relationships between labor, immigration and gender, especially at “factories that manufacture intellectual products, in particular companies whose raw material is the word.” In the words of the poet herself, the book “aims to relate the condition of workers who resist the logic of modern factories with the immigrant experience from a feminine gender perspective. In this sense, the project deals with the double violence that marks these on the one hand, workplace violence governed by pragmatism and profit motives that deteriorate the physiological, psychological, and social conditions of workers; on the other hand, the violence of disrupted cultural, social, and family coordinates, as in the case of the foreign woman.”

64 pages, Paperback

Published September 25, 2019

About the author

Daniel Beauregard lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of places including the Action Book Blog, Propagule, ergot, Self Fuck, New South, Burning House Press, Alwayscrashing, and elsewhere. He's the author of numerous chapbooks of poetry, most recently Total Darkness Means No Notifications (Anstruther Press) and Anatomizing Uncanny Alley (Self Fuck). His full-length collection of poetry, You Alive Home Yet? is available from Schism Neuronics and his splatterpunk novel Blood Pudding from World Castle Publishing. His post-apocalyptic novella The Mother of Flowers is forthcoming from The Wild Rose Press, and his first collection of short stories, Funeralopolis (Orbis Tertius Press) and existential horror novel Lord of Chaos (Erratum Press) will be published in 2023. Daniel is also co-founder of OOMPH!, a small press devoted to the publication of poetry and prose in translation.