Autoepitaph

Selected Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8130-4973-1
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) remains one of the most famous Cu¬ban writers in exile. His work constitutes a monument of resistance literature, but much of the focus has been on his novels and his autobiography, Before Night Falls, chosen as one of the ten best books of 1993 by the New York Times. Because his poetic output has not been widely translated, Autoepitaph will be the only volume cur¬rently in print of Arenas’s poetry in translation in any language.

This bilingual volume includes narrative poems, sonnets, excerpts from Arenas’s prose poems, and previously unpublished works from his papers at Princeton University. Both the Spanish originals as well as English translations seamlessly capture the poet’s sarcasm, humour, and powerful rhythms. Camelly Cruz-Martes provides an outline for Arenas’s major poetic strategies, as well as context for the themes that unite his poems: resistance against colonialism, political and personal repression, existential alienation, and the desire for transcendence through art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arenas, Reinaldo

Cruz-Martes, Camelly

Weitere Mitwirkende

Washbourne, Kelly

Über Autor(innen)

Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright.

Camelly Cruz-Martes is associate professor of Spanish at Walsh University.

Kelly Washbourne is associate professor of Spanish translation at Kent State University. He has translated six books from Spanish to English and is the author of Manual of Spanish-English Translation.