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"Ivan Argüelles is one of this century's finest, yet he remains known to only a few passionate partisans. His work is 'difficult,' but it is no more difficult than the work of many far better-known poets—and his work is better than theirs. Argüelles is wide-ranging, restless, full of 'references'—the author's learning is immense—but also, immediate, astonishing, visceral; his work communicates before it is fully, or, indeed sometimes even partially, 'understood'" — Jack Foley.
Ivan Argüelles is one of this century's foremost surrealist poets. Born in Minnesota of Mexican and Anglo parentage (his father was a "communista" who knew Leon Trotsky personally), Ivan lived throughout the United States before settling in Berkeley, California. A polyglot and classicist, Argüelles manages to convey in his work a magical combination of surpassing reality and an almost eerie symbolism. His many books include THE DEATH OF STALIN: SELECTED EARLY POEMS 1978-1989 (The Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, 2011), The Invention of Spain, LOOKING FOR MARY LOU: ILLEGAL SYNTAX (William Carlos Williams Award, 1989), "THAT" GODDESS, MADONNA SEPTET (2 vols.), INFERNO, and COMEDY, DIVINE, THE. Argüelles is founder and co-editor of Pantograph Press.
