Terán / Teran The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out

Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2520-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 51, 144 Seiten

Reihe: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Terán, Ana Enriqueta

Teran, Ana Enriqueta

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smith, Marcel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator's Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
A Note about Sources xviii
FROM House Made of Utterance To a White Horse 3
The Name 5
Wordstone 7
Deal Struck with Happiness 9
The Eagle 11
Fit Vision of This Dark Side 13
Dreams 15
Third Try at the Mother House 43
Messages for the Older Brother 45
Music with Psalm Foot 53
Pebbles for Scrying 57
The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out 59
FROM Sonnets out of All My Seasons So much bread, so much oil 63
The strangers rattled at the door 65
She took in night in the pier glass 67
One only leaf, adagioed up 69
They who live there hurl their writings 71
Subtle in your fourteen lines surge 73
In the Suapure River 75
A puddle of shade, on its face 77
Wisdoms of uncertain silk cords 79
Music for lips, whirlwind the heart 81
The replies waver in a vain 83
Black, yellow, white as a subtle 85
FROM Albatross Albatross 89
Splintery Responsibility 91
Ascents and Yet Distances 93
Never Seen Fowl 95
Not Resting Yet 97
Will of the Torn Scream 99
FROM Autobiography in Tercets Río Momboy 103
The Motatán 107
Other Rivers 111
Invocation to the Mother 115

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Enriqueta Terán is one of Venezuela's best-known poets and has published more than a dozen books of poetry. She was named Doctora Honoris Causa by the University of Carabobo and, in 1989, was awarded her country's highest literary honor, the Premio Nacional de Literatura. Now in her eighties, she is writing her autobiography to be published only after her death. Marcel Smith is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He has published translations of Spanish poems in a number of journals. This is his first book.