LEX ICON

Salette Tavares

• Other Authors Isabel Sobral Campos (Translator), Kristofer Petersen-Overton (Translator)
• Title

  LEX ICON

• Date 2024
• ISBN 9781946433992
• Publisher Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Description 150 p.; 7.5 in.
• Language English, Spanish
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  Appearing for the first time in English translation, LEX ICON

   

  Appearing for the first time in English translation, LEX ICON presents everyday objects through the lens of modern art and abstraction. As abstraction distills the geometrical shape of an object by shedding its function, so too do Tavares’s poems distill the essence of everyday items in language. LEX ICON connects Tavares’s early poetry to her later graphic sculptural poems. Foregrounding insights into human sociality, labor, and domesticity that dwell in simple household objects, the poems collected here also present these as almost mystical artifacts that partake in some unnamed ritual (Ugly Duckling Presse). 
  

  Lost Literature Series #33

• Tags Poetry, Bilingual, Experimental poetry, Portuguese