Awaking Demons

Daniel Samoilovich was born in Buenos Aires in 1949). He has published eleven books of poems, including Las Encantadas (Tusquets, Barcelona, 2003; translated as The Enchanted Isles, Shearsman, 2023), El carrito de Eneas (Buenos Aires, 2003) and Molestando a los demonios (Pre-textos, Madrid-Valencia, 2009). In 2020 Pre-textos published his Fabulas y fabulaciones, written in collaboration with the artist Eduardo Stupia. He is a translator from English, French and Latin, and has translated into Spanish the Latin poet Horace and, in collaboration with Mirta Rosenberg, Shakespeare (Henry IV). He edited the quarterly newspaper Diario de Poesia throughout its 83 editions from its foundation in Buenos Aires in 1986 to 2012. He has given lectures or seminars on poetry and poetics at the Casa Encendida and the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, as well as at the universities of Los Andes and Carabobo (Venezuela), Nacional (Colombia), Rosario and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Puebla (Mexico) and Princeton (USA). Several collections of his work have been published, including La nuit avant de monter a bord (Quebec, 2001), Driven by the wind and drenched to the bone (Shoestring, Nottingham, 2007), and Siete colinas de jade (Conaculta, Mexico, 2015). In 2015, the publishing house Bajo la Luna published his "collected", Rusia es el tema, Obra Reunida 1973-2008.