Download or read book Jose Gorostiza written by José Gorostiza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is published by Floricanto Press in conjuction with Berkeley Press.www.FloricantoPress.com Jos� Gorostiza's poetry is "the most... concentrated of modern poetry in Spanish," according to renowned Mexican poet and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz. Hence, this thin volume of collected poems, which, nevertheless, has as much poetry as many bulkier tomes. It's just that here, the poetry is concentrated in fewer poems. The Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature expresses the consensus of Spanish-language critics on Gorostiza's masterwork, Muerte sin fin (Endless Death): "It is impossible to overstate the importance of this poem... among the finest in the Spanish language... takes its place alongside Eliot's The Wasteland (1922) or Val�ry's Le Cimeti�re marin (1920) as one of the pinnacles of sustained poetic achievement in the 20th century." Yet, inspite of Gorostiza's importance to Spanish language and especially Mexican literature, about two thirds of this book appears in English translation for the first time. The only other English translation of Muerte sin fin has been out of print for nearly half a century. In lectures at Harvard in 1971, Octavio Paz considered Muerte the equal and opposite to Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda's masterwork Canto General (1950). Paz called the latter "a monument to loquacity" and the former "a monument to reticence." In the collection of literary essays, The Siren and the Seashell, Paz wrote, "The only intellectual [Spanish language] poets of this period were two Spanish Americans: the Mexican Jos� Gorostiza and the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges... Borges and Gorostiza belong to the great tradition of intellectual poetry: Coleridge, Leopardi, Val�ry..." Preeminent Mexican poet and man-of-letters Alfonso Reyes called Muerte sin fin "the diamond in the crown of Mexican Poetry...a statue of rock crystal... a tower of lights... His work is as scant as it is great... [He is] the diver... surfacing with the pearl in the palm of his hand. He dispenses with all the useless and squeezes the essence." H.R. Hays, dean of English-language translators of Latin American poetry, wrote that "What gives [Gorostiza's poetry] its intensity is a certain metaphysical passion... Gorostiza's integrity gives his work its force and his exquisite craftsmanship ranks him as one of the most distinguished... poets of Mexico." In 2014, Berkeley and Floricanto Presses jointly published translator and editor M.W. Jacobs' translated selection Poems, Ram�n L�pez Velarde. Jacobs was also the editor of Choicest Rock Band Names as Tiny Poems (2012) and author of the short story collection San Fran '60s: Stories of the Hippies, the Summer of Love, and San Francisco in the '60s, Volumes 1 & 2 (2017), both published by Escallonia Press. Also in 2014, Escallonia Press published his A History of the U.S. in 20 Movies: an All-Movie History Course. All of the above books are available on Amazon.
Download or read book The Poetry of Jos Gorostiza written by Robert Klein Engler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I first became aware of José Gorostiza's poetry on New Year's Day, 1984. I was sitting on a bench along the Paseo de Reforma in Mexico City. It was early in the morning. The festive atmosphere of New Year's Eve had given way to a cool and bright dawn. Across the street I could see a plywood barricade that had gone up temporarily around a construction site. The boards were covered with graffiti. On one of them, a tagger had written some verses by José Gorostiza. The writing was signed by: "The Committee for the Defense of the Language." I was struck by the poem, and the next day I went to a bookstore in the Zona Rosa and bought a thin volume of Gorostiza's complete works. I have been translating his writing since then.
Download or read book Mexican Literature written by David William Foster and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary phenomena that constitute Mexico's most significant and original contributions to literature. Recognizing that no one scholar can authoritatively cover so much territory, David William Foster has assembled a group of specialists, some of them younger scholars who write from emerging trends in Latin American and Mexican literary scholarship. The topics they discuss include pre-Columbian indigenous writing (Joanna O'Connell), Colonial literature (Lee H. Dowling), Romanticism (Margarita Vargas), nineteenth-century prose fiction (Mario Martín Flores), Modernism (Bart L. Lewis), major twentieth-century genres (narrative, Lanin A. Gyurko; poetry, Adriana García; theater, Kirsten F. Nigro), the essay (Martin S. Stabb), literary criticism (Daniel Altamiranda), and literary journals (Luis Peña). Each essay offers detailed analysis of significant issues and major texts and includes an annotated bibliography of important critical sources and reference works.
Download or read book Contemporary Spanish Poetry written by Cecile West-Settle and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debicki's illuminating application of varied critical methodologies and theoretical approaches, in books such as Poetry of Discovery and Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century, is reflected in all the essays included in this book."
Download or read book A Different Reality written by Anita K. Stoll and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of materials by and about Elena Garro includes translations of two of her one-act plays and several essays that explore her theatrical and narrative pieces. Also presented are a personal interview and a chronology of her life by her own account.
Download or read book Katherine Anne Porter s Poetry written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry makes available for the first time the complete poetic canon of one of America's most-celebrated writers. Widely known and revered for her award-winning short stories, Porter published just thirty-two poems and poetry translations during her lifetime, although she composed - and subsequently destroyed - hundreds. Her poetry is virtually unknown even by her most devoted followers. From fragmentary notes and letters found among Porter's papers, Darlene Harbour Unrue has recovered and edited eighteen unpublished poems. In a significant addition to the Porter canon, these newly found poems join Porter's published verse - including the entire text of the now-rare Katherine Anne Porter's French Song-Book - to create a unique commentary on the writer's life and work. Interspersed with photographs of Porter from the years and places in which she composed the poems, the volume features a substantial critical and biographical essay in which Unrue explains the significance of individual poems and details the relationship between Porter's poetry and fiction. Unrue describes Porter's verse as an index to the stages of her developing intellectual thought and, in some cases, an intermediate phase in a creative process that began with random notes and letters and culminated in fiction.
Download or read book The Effects of the Nation written by Carl Good and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the effect of a nation? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, or only dormant? The essays in this groundbreaking volume use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and beyond its own borders. Mexico is a particularly apt focus, partly because of the vitality of its culture, partly because of its changing political identity, and partly because of the impact of borders and borderlessness on its national character. The ten essays collected here look at a wide range of aesthetic productions -- especially literature and the visual arts -- that give context to how art and society interact. Steering a careful course between the nostalgia of nationalism and the insensitivity of globalism, these essays examine modernism and postmodernism in the Mexican setting. Individually, they explore the incorporation of historical icons, of vanguardism, and of international influence. From Diego Rivera to Elena Garro, from the Tlateloco massacre to the Chiapas rebellion, from mass-market fiction to the film "Aliens," the contributors view the many sides of Mexican life as relevant to the creation of a constantly shifting national culture. Taken together, the essays look both backward and forward at the evolving effect of the Mexican nation.
Download or read book The Poetry Review written by Stephen Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures written by Daniel Balderston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 1833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vast three-volume Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the dynamic and exciting contemporary cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Its coverage is unparalleled with more than 40 regions discussed and a time-span of 1920 to the present day. "Culture" is broadly defined to include food, sport, religion, television, transport, alongside architecture, dance, film, literature, music and sculpture. The international team of contributors include many who are based in Latin America and the Caribbean making this the most essential, authoritative and authentic Encyclopedia for anyone studying Latin American and Caribbean studies. Key features include: * over 4000 entries ranging from extensive overview entries which provide context for general issues to shorter, factual or biographical pieces * articles followed by bibliographic references which offer a starting point for further research * extensive cross-referencing and thematic and regional contents lists direct users to relevant articles and help map a route through the entries * a comprehensive index provides further guidance.
Download or read book Nine Latinamerican Poets written by Rachel Benson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American Vanguards written by Vicky Unruh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism—a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers—was stimulated by the European avant-garde movements of the World War I era. But as Unruh's wide-ranging study attests, the vanguards of Latin America—emerging from the continent's own historical circumstances—developed a very distinct character and voice. Through manifestos, experimental texts, and ribald public performance, the vanguardists' work intertwined art, culture, and the politics of the day to produce a powerful brand of aesthetic activism, one that sparked an entire rethinking of the meaning of art and culture throughout Latin America.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry written by Stephen Tapscott and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Large anthology includes work by 58 poets. Extensive, but general, introduction. Poets arranged chronologically from Josâe Martâi to Marjorie Agosâin. Volume includes few surprises and relatively few women. Bilingual format. Many translators; great fluctuation in quality. For detailed discussion of translations, see Charles Tomlinson in Times Literary Supplement, May 9, 1997; and Eliot Weinberger in Sulfur, 40, Spring 1997"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Download or read book Stand written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oranges Peanuts for Sale written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at the PEN World Voices Festival as a "post-national" writer, Eliot Weinberger is "a sparkling essayist" (Confrontation), and his writings "a boundary-crossing, shape-shifting cabinet of curiosities" (The Bloomsbury Review).
Download or read book Death Without End written by José Gorostiza and published by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Idle Fictions written by Gustavo Pérez Firmat and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class war not between social classes but between literary classes." Concentrating on source material not widely available, Pérez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of their publication, then develops a reading of them based on the intellectual context of this reception. A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies have been added to this paperback edition.
Download or read book Death Without End written by José Gorostiza and published by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
