Spain in Our Hearts
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“Liz Werner, the ‘antitranslator,’ has done a remarkable job of capturing the profoudly antic and deadly serious tone of Nicanor Parra’s antipoetry. If you expect the staid reflections of an elder poet, you’ve come to the wrong book. Parra is as vital, and funny, and confounding as ever.”
—Edith Grossman
eISBN 0-8112-1597-0
Federico García Lorca
SELECTED POEMS
With a new Introduction by W.S. Merwin
Edited, with a Preface, by Francisco García Lorca and Donald Allen
“What a poet! I have never seen grace and genius, a winged heart and a crystalline waterfall, come together in anyone else as they did in him. Federico García Lorca was the extravagant “duende,” his was a magnetic joyfulness that generated a zest for life in his heart and radiated it like a planet.”
—Pablo Neruda
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has been the classic collection of Lorca’s poems for generations of American readers. The translators of this selection—as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin—have produced English versions which catch the spirit and intensity of the originals. Chosen from each of his original volumes as well as from posthumously published poems, this is a compilation of Lorca’s very best.
This bilingual edition—original Spanish text facing the English text—is reissued with an Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, teacher, and translator W. S. Merwin, who says of Lorca: “What he wrote in his short life made it impossible to imagine the poetry not only of Spain and the Spanish language everywhere but of the whole Western world, since then, without him.”
ISBN 0-8112-1622-5
Homero Aridjis
EYES TO SEE OTHERWISE
Ojos de otro mirar / SELECTED POEMS
Edited by Betty Ferber and George McWhirter
“Homero Aridjis’s poems open a door into the light.”
—Seamus Heaney
“Homero Aridjis [is] a poet of great vitality and originality.”
—W.S. Merwin
Eyes to See Otherwise is the first extensive selection of poems by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The range and quality of the translations, by some of America’s finest poets, mark the centrality of his work on the map of modern poetry. He is, in the words of translator George McWhirter, “a troubadour of love for lost environments, a voice in the wilderness of Mexico City and Mexico.”
Included in this selection are poems by Aridjis evoking his own life, present and past, his memories always sticking close to his birthplace Contepec, where, on Altamirano Hill, the Monarch butterflies arrive each year. This long awaited Selected Poems enables the reader to witness the poetic and personal evolution of this “visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline concentrations and infinite spaces” (Kenneth Rexroth).
ISBN 0-8112-1509-1
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Copyright © Editorial Losada, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1958, 1961, 1962
Copyright © 1973 by Pablo Neruda and Donald D. Walsh
Copyright © 2005 by New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Pablo Neruda originally published España en el corazon in 1937, and later included it in the third volume of Residencia en la tierra, first published by New Directions in 1973, and reissued in 2004. For this edition of Spain in Our Hearts, minor corrections were made based on Volume I of Galaxia Gutenberg’s 2001 edition of Neruda’s Obras completas, edited by Hernán Loyola.
The preface, “My Book on Spain,” is an excerpt from Memoirs by Pablo Neruda, translated by Hardie St. Martin. Translation copyright © 1977 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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