Poetry. Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jacob Steinberg. Bilingual Edition. This is the second book in a series of the complete works of Cecilia Pav n that Scrambler will publish over the next several years.

LICORICE CANDIES collects short stories and poems written during the author's most experimental and frenzied phase. The backdrop shifts from barren plazas in Buenos Aires to basement parties in Berlin. "I wished that, by continually moving horizontally, in a straight line, my body would touch Germany... that you could reach Berlin from Buenos Aires in a second without any planes; that all the coolest cities in the world were each a continuation of the next: Lima, Buenos Aires, Berlin." The medium through which these desires manifest is the Internet. The Internet--a ubiquitous force that becomes the notebook for the author's poetry: typo-ridden love letters; the grammarless confessions of a polyglot; a geography that bends to the author's will, making everything closer, more intimate.