MAGULLADÓN
First Edition: 2012
Second Edition: 2020
Language: Spanish
ISBN 978-987-46965-5-7
20 x 14 cm, 72 pp.
Published by:
Triana Editorial
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In his poetic debut, American poet Jacob Steinberg constructs a verbal playground where contemporary American and Argentine influences clash. The setting changes between New York and Buenos Aires, the author moves frenetically through romantic interests and drugs. But some constants anchor the text: the internet, Kabbalah, and a—juvenile, resolute—belief that every bruise is a badge of honor and words are always the remedy.
First published by Triana Editorial in 2012, this new edition contains the definitive text.
REVIEWS
"There is no doubt for me that Jacob Steinberg is one of the most important poets of my generation. Magulladón summarizes an era. The poems are blows, which with time change shape and color on your skin. This poetry is valid as it's exact poetry, in the moment, translating with precision the sensibility of a generation that saw how their feelings got flattened on a screen. Hence the blow, the bruise. Magulladón is a demand to bring back corporality. But above all, it's a demand to bring back the place of the poet, the place of naming that which seems unnameable, the elementary brilliance of an unsent message. Taking back the words that belong to us, as Jacob says, lest the financial advisors think they can call their cryptocurrency "ether," lest they think they can pass us by, just like that."
—Malén Denis, author of Litio
"The poems that comprise Magulladón invite readers to a world where proportionality is naught, and we all move through a totally imbalanced landscape of emotions. Excesses like love, drugs, and sadness constantly converse in a life that doesn't seem built to integrate them all together, but has fun trying to make anything work."
—Gustavo Yuste, author of Las canciones de los boliches
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