Read excerpts (in Spanish) at Revista Temporales, NYU and Jámpster magazine.

62 brazadas (Buenos Aires: Zindo & Gafuri, Spanish)

Premio Municipal de Poesía / City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize

“Silvina López Medin’s third book 62 brazadas [62 Strokes] takes John Cheever’s classic story “The Swimmer” as starting point—the story about a person who undertakes an allegorical return to his home swimming across his neighbors’ pools. Structured in brief “blocks,” 62 brazadas exposes, in each poem, the sensorial quality of a body surrounded by water. Poem-strokes that reach the resonant nature of haikus, frozen in time and also—and here lies the powerful quality of the book—moving forward in time and liquid space like fragments of a narrative. Spoken by a poetic voice that blends with that of the character who moves in the water, the poems are dazzling, bringing together dynamic narrative and glowing lyricism.”

—FERNANDO MOLLE, Review Revista de Libros

“Silvina López Medin’s third book 62 brazadas [62 Strokes] is composed of 62 poems—brief, elegant, and precise—of a delicious sonority and concise syntax that appear to be written following a rhythmic breathing…A wise and beautiful book.”

—MERCEDES ARAUJO, Viceversa magazine

“Taking John Cheever’s widely-known story [The Swimmer] as starting point, Silvina López Medin embodies in swimming a radiant sensibility.”

—DANIEL GIGENA, Página 12