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The Lady of Elche

The Lady of Elche by Amanda Berenguer

The Lady of Elche (La dama de Elche)

By Amanda Berenguer

Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra

Like the unburied sculpture of her book title, Amanda Berenguer’s poems from the 1980s in The Lady of Elche are a wonder, an enigma, and a warning.

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Review of The Lady of Elche. By Janani Ambikapathy, for the Poetry Foundation

Book Review of The Lady of Elche and Materia Prima at Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 56

“Elche,” at Intermedium, a commentary series for Jacket2 (University of Pennsylvania)

“On Amanda Berenguer’s The Lady of Elche: A Poetics Battling Negation.” Interview with Kristin Dykstra by Erín Moure. Latin American Literature Today.

“A Secular Epic,” review of The Lady of Elche, by Jeannine Marie Pitas, at Reading in Translation.

Graphic art review of The Lady of Elche, by Jesse Lee Kercheval, at Rhino.

Review of The Lady of Elche at Letras Latinas blog, by Diego Báez

“In Their Own Words”: Feature at Poetry Society of America

“‘A Very Full, Large, and Luminous Space’: Interview about Amanda Berenguer with Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson.” Peter Boyle, Rain Taxi.

Materia Prima, the first English-language anthology to feature Uruguayan poet Amanda Berenguer, edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson.

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