Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 191 g
Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 191 g
Reihe: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
ISBN: 978-0-691-09672-8
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Ana Enriqueta Terán is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted impression of a uniquely intense imagination.This bilingual edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of corresponding force. It invites readers to enter Terán's world--a world at once strongly Venezuelan and universally human, imbued with great beauty, sardonic humor, pitiless compassion, lucid wisdom, and joyful affirmation.Selected from several volumes of Terán's work, these poems span half a century of composition and show an extraordinary range in both form and substance. Some are written in closed forms, some in free verse. Some are carefully evocative representations of the landscapes and cityscapes that have nourished the poet's intelligence and imagination. Others are dramatic character studies. All are infused with Terán's rare sensibility and realized through language that manages to be at once graceful, urgent, and explosive. This volume is a treasure for all lovers of poetry. Deal Struck with HappinessHow much sweetness to make right the night
and this clutch of anemones
near thin smooth consoling stones,
stones havens of southern weather.
Of a woman who watches Cepheids quaver
among lightbursting mangroves.
Of a woman who offers cats-eyes and clematis
only, Islands, for the sake of setting right
her deal struck with happiness.
Weitere Infos & Material
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 R?o Momboy 103
The Motat?n 107
Other Rivers 111
Invocation to the Mother 115
