2019 Oversound Chapbook Prize Winner: Silvina López Medin
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Mary Jo Bang has chosen Silvina López Medin’s Excursion as the winner of the 2019 competition. Echoing the 24 frames per second that create the perception of movement in film, Excursion’s 24 poems ask how to push forward what’s static. Set between two times and spaces—a couple in a hotel room, and a brother and a sister on a boat—these poems explore the tension contained in the double meaning of the word “excursion”: the fixity of a route and the possibility of departing from it.
Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives in New York. She is the author of three books of poetry: La noche de los bueyes (Madrid, 1999), which won the International Young Poetry Prize by the Loewe Foundation, Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (Buenos Aires, 2014), and 62 brazadas (Buenos Aires, 2015). Her play, Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo, 2008) was granted the Plays Third Prize by the Argentine Institute of Theatre. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet (2015) and Home Movies (2016), a selection of poems by Robert Hass, into Spanish. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. She is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.
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