Notes Toward a Pamphlet by Sergio Chejfec. Translated by Whitney DeVos (Ugly Duckling, chapbook)
Publication Date: July 1, 2020
Publisher Marketing: "Argentine poet Samich moves from the provinces to the outskirts of Buenos Aires and decides to turn his life into a work of art. Fumbling through a world constructed of intuitions and beliefs, he has scant preparation and few firm ideas about how to do this. Nonetheless, he develops a cult following. Fiction writer and essayist Sergio Chejfec offers a series of numbered notes as an outline of Samich's thinking-in-process, investigating the pamphlet form as a 'megaphone' for the dissemination of 'views' bound by 'a situation of existence' of a poet who 'aspired to a voice permanently lowered.' As if to say: by means of the pamphlet, the biography becomes the work."
