Belleza y Felicidad, both the place and the idea, live on in the irresistible pleasures of Cecilia’s and Fernanda’s poems and stories. Upon revisiting them now I find that they are in fact high-precision lenses for seeing the daily utopias of reality. -César Aira

Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón are legendary writers, domesticating the world in order to make it the subject of their ‘domestic’ poetry. They are voracious and understand everything. Stuart Krimko’s translations capture the totalizing effect of their writings beautifully. -Chris Kraus

This book is a paradise of love. Eminent, charismatic, & frolicsome, it’s also the magic transcription of a friendship, i.e. a romance (several!), the kind I spent my misspent youth envying in Montaigne & La Boetie. Ecstatics of childlike candor & polymorphous grace, Fernanda Laguna & Cecilia Pavón are absolute women, guileless dreamers, saints in sneakers, on sidewalks, in jail, in Zara, on buses, in nightclubs, in bed, about to turn 29 & 37 & 7. I can’t wait for everyone in America to read this book & never be the same again.