Juan Arabia (Buenos Aires, 1983) is a poet, translator, literary critic, and publisher. The poems included here belong to his collection Nature’s Dislodging [Desalojo de la naturaleza] (2017). Un colibrí en la bauhinia En la rama más baja de bauhinia descansa el negro azul color marino. El colibrí inadaptable...Púrpura, como el placer del límite, sediento como la … [Read more...]
Beatnik / Kerouac and Rock ‘n Roll: Two essays by Juan Arabia
Beatnik The origin of "beat" is as a word of oral usage, closer to experience; in its meaning of "beat down" it suggests the being as defeated or battered down. It points toward a certain continuation--open to the world--of the body that breaks with unveiling death. Kerouac includes it into the discourse of “the other,” that is, us, in the middle of a conversation. In … [Read more...]
An interview with Argentinian poet, publisher and translator, Juan Arabia
Juan Arabia (b.1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a poet, translator and literary critic. He studied Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and is now the director and publisher of the website, Buenos Aires Poetry. In the course of his work he has interviewed many poets including John Ashbery, Dan Fante and Robert Darnton; translated several works into Spanish and … [Read more...]
