Research Catalog

Title

Letters so that happiness / Arnaldo Calveyra ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Zuba.

Author

Calveyra, Arnaldo, 1929-

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.
• [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed in the USA by Small Press Distribution
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zuba, Elizabeth
• Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher

Description

62 pages : portrait; 21 cm

Series Statement

Lost literature series ; #22

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Lost literature series ; #22.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Calveyra, Arnaldo, 1929- > Translations into English
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "This translation is based on 'Cartas para que la alegría'"--Colophon.
• Prose poems.
• Edition of 1,000.

Language (note)

• English and Spanish on facing pages.

Contents

• El viaje lo trajimos lo mejor que se pudo = The journey, we brought it along the best we could -- La casita se ha convertido en algo cerca del mar = The house has turned into something near the sea -- No te dije de la luna = I didn't tell you about the moon -- Ya van para veinte años en el color del fierro = They're already going on twenty in the color of iron -- Soñé con la casa color de tormenta = I dreamed about the storm-colored house -- Un galope abría ramadas hacia el este de las tunas = A gallop parted the branches to the east of the prickly pears -- Kikirikí grita una hierba entre los pulgares = Cockledoodledoo whoops a blade of grass between two thumbs -- Como si estuviera por llegarme a cada instante = As if it were ever almost here this forever -- La muchachita guardapolvo blanco venía a la cocina = White overalls girl came into the kitchen -- El muchacho volvía por lo confiado de la noche = The boy came back by the mettle of the night -- Ya limpia de la honda y de la piedra salí a mirar otoño de la variacíon = Clean free of the sling and stone I went out to watch the autumn of the variation -- De pronto, ¡qué alegría! = Suddenly, how wonderful!
• El globo que nos trajeron las visitas Buenos Aires = The balloon they brought us from Buenos Aires -- La lluvia de sobre techo y la lluvia be bajo techo cantan cantarán = The on-the-roof rain and the under-the-roof rain sing will sing -- Al sol, al sol, al sol = To the sun, to the sun, to the sun -- Rayuela canta en espiral con un pie en el suelo y el otro pie sin donde = Hopscotch singing rounds with one foot on the ground and the other without anywhere -- Con las compras y el pelo recién cortado = With parcels and new haircuts -- Me lavé la cara en la luna nueva = I washed my face in the new moon -- El aire era de vidrio y estaba a punto de romperse = The air was glass and about to break -- Llegó la hora de las consejas mi madre = The time has come for fables, mother -- La loma de faldas anchas, entretenida con el niño = The wide skirt hill, distracted with the child -- Te pido que no te intranquilices, estoy tranquilo = Please don't be worried, I'm not ; Translator's note ; About the author.

Call Number

JFD 18-938

ISBN

• 9781946433053
• 1946433055

OCLC

1029202584

Author

Calveyra, Arnaldo, 1929- author.

Title

Letters so that happiness / Arnaldo Calveyra ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Zuba.

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.

Distributor

[Berkeley, CA] : Distributed in the USA by Small Press Distribution

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Lost literature series ; #22

Lost literature series ; #22.

Language

English and Spanish on facing pages.

Local Note

Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook and zine collection.

Added Author

Zuba, Elizabeth, translator.

Container of (work): Calveyra, Arnaldo, 1929- Cartas para que la alegría.

Container of (expression): Calveyra, Arnaldo, 1929- Cartas para que la alegría. English.

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-938