We're thrilled to share Notes / Notas by Juan Gelman, translated by Arianna Afsari and Silvia Tandeciarz, and published by the87press, as our Translation Choice for Autumn 2026.
This bilingual edition makes Juan Gelman's hauntingly beautiful exilic poetry collection, Notes / Notas, available to English-speaking audiences in its entirety for the first time. With a deep appreciation for Gelman's masterful language play, Afsari and Tandeciarz channel both the force of his poetic testimony against the real violence of Argentina's military dictatorship, and his lyrical conjuring of the possible. Interweaving reflections on revolution, loss and memory, Argentina's poet laureate conjures forth a sense of hope in the wake of inconceivable suffering.
“Notes / Notas is a book of ghosts, but also of defiance. It insists that language, however fractured, can still hold memory, rage, and love together. This translation doesn’t resolve Gelman’s tensions – it lets them burn.” — Leo Boix, PBS Selector
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