Abstract
Serbal (2019) is an unpublished collection of poems by Leonce Lupette (Göttingen, 1986), a French-German writer, poet and translator who has lived in Argentina for several years. In this collection of poems, structured alphabetically as a sort of encyclopedia or incomplete notes, the explorer-botanist-poet proposes an expanded way of seeing and inhabiting reality, exploring ways to describe reality and expressing oneself in a playful exercise of blurring the borders between names and languages. The poems are written in Spanish, but also in German, French, English, Portuguese, Portunhol, among other languages and dialects, and they compel us to look at the world and to inhabit it from the small differences and to build what we could call “inessential communities”, paraphrasing Agamben (1996).
Keywords:
multilingual poetry; encyclopedia; translation; border; botany