Acclaimed Argentinian poet Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems animates the particulars of an imaginary world that lives deeply inside this one, where objects acquire voices, seasons move simultaneously across rural landscapes, and a mother and daughter share a unique vision of the past and present. Considering the ways joy interacts with its afterlives and fantasy creates different shapes of grief—a particularly snowy day, the methods of lighting a cigarette, a gentle rain, a naked woman asleep in a field—Iannamico taps into poetry’s distinctive ability to magically transform daily scenes into purely ecstatic visions.

"Reading these 'many poems' feels like coming across a vibrant patch of wildflowers unexpectedly. I’m reminded of the fact that once collections of poems were called 'florilegios' in Spanish—tenderly picked flowers, that is. I’m won over by their openness and seemingly effortless charm, uplifted by their spirit, appearing in another of Iannamico’s poems thus: 'I love life / the moments of life / the everyday ones / even if you barely notice them / the magic ones / the sunny ones / the chatting / the music / the weather….' Almeida’s versions re-perform the poems’ magic, and that too is something to love."
—Mónica de la Torre