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Buttonhook Press 2021 Pamphlet Series
Writer’s Portfolio
Poetry: All forms & styles

(Click on the title to explore or download the free PDF.)

(Read a review by O:JA&L Executive Editor Cutter Streeby of Arturo Desimone’s full-length collection Ouafa and Thawra: About a Lover from Tunisia.)

Arturo Desimone

POEM scrawled on a maize-sheaf for her
(last offering)

Argentine sixtina capella dream of a Roman vacation by Arturo Desimone.

 

About the writer:
Arturo Desimone is an Aruban-Argentinean writer and visual artist. His articles, poetry and fiction pieces previously appeared in Berfrois, Mediterranean Poetry, Nueva York Poetry Review,  Island (Tasmania), the Drunken Boat,  Anomaly and in the poetry collection Mare Nostrum/Costa Nostra (Hesterglock 2019) and La Amada de Túnez (Clara Beter Ediciones) a bilingual edition of his poems and drawings was published last year in Argentina. He has collaborated as a translator on the book Land of Mild Light, a translation of poems by Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, released by Arrowsmith Press during the pandemic.

Image: Argentine sixtina capella dream of a Roman vacation by Arturo Desimone. No medium specified. No size specified. By 2021. By permission.

 

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