Research Catalog

Title

Self-portrait in the zone of silence / Homero Aridjis ; translated from the Spanish by George McWhirter.

Author

Aridjis, Homero

Publication

• New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

McWhirter, George

Description

163 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus, denunciations of drug traffickers and political figureheads, and unforgettable imaginary landscapes. As Aridjis himself writes: "a poem is like a door / we've never passed through ..." And now past eighty, Aridjis reflects on the past and ponders the future. "Surrounded by light and the warbling of birds," he writes, "I live in a state of poetry, because for me, being and making poetry are the same.""--

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1549

Uniform Title

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1549.

Subject

• Aridjis, Homero > Translations into English
• Aridjis, Homero

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Translations.

Language (note)

• Text in translated English and parallel Spanish.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Solar Poems -- The Jaguar -- Meeting with My Father in the Orchard -- Meeting with My Mother in the Old Kitchen -- The Ghost of a Dog -- Like a Dog -- Mina Harker's Diary -- The Desire to Be Oneself -- Through the Green Door -- The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle -- Let Us Unimagine Lethe -- Antipastoral -- The Jungle Aflame -- The God -- Driver Death -- The White Cat of Early Morning -- The Diary of Dreams -- I Always Dream of a Place that is Some Other Place -- Light of My Childhood -- Not Me -- I Am an Undocumented in Eternity -- Chess, Cordoba, Year One Thousand -- The Dream Projector -- All of My Yesterdays -- Last Day of the Year in the Icy Church -- The God Dog -- The Violence in Mexico Began with the Gods -- Mama Coatlicue -- The Sacrificial Stone -- We Are Children of Cruel Gods -- Aztec Cuisine -- Venado, Mexican, Deer -- Epitaph for a Tyrant -- Street Dog -- The Sun of the Blind -- At Seventy -- Dream with No Day to It -- The Country Woman -- Dog Deserted on an Island -- The Dreaming Body -- The First Dream -- Of the Heavens and Its Marvels, the Earth and Its Miseries -- The Totality -- Angels in the Metro -- I Love the Sun -- The Tree -- Levitations -- Oh, Buddha -- El caracol -- The Black Eye of the Totality -- A Migraine -- One Moment -- Godmother Death -- News of the Earth -- Artaud in the Sierra Tarahumara -- Raramuris Running -- Not All -- Self-Portrait with Hands -- Garden of Ghosts -- Bert's Feast -- Borges in Front of the Mirror -- Poet Beatific -- Coda -- Swedenborg -- In Violent Times -- A Politician in Azteca Stadium, Croaking of Frogs -- The Saint of the Narco Traffickers -- The Secret Agent -- Epitaph for Lupe Velez -- Three Goyaesque Poems -- With Corruption -- The Street of Showcase Windows -- City without Sleep -- Revolver -- Socrates the Tomato Grower -- Nakedness -- The Great Tlatoani -- Magic -- A Poem Is Like a Door -- The Ruins of Language -- Odyssey -- Poetry Calls -- The Infinite Sadness of God -- Vertical Maze -- Thirteen and a Half -- Insomnia -- Unexplained Phenomena, 1 -- Migrants on the Way -- The Ant -- For Betty, An Autumnal Poem of Love -- Mexico City Dreaming -- Poetry Calls -- The Lone Woman on the Last Trolley -- Carpe Diem -- The Octopus -- Josephine, Day One -- Nocturne of the Leatherback Turtle -- The Blind Harper -- Signs of the Last Judgment, According to Gonzalo de Berceo -- Poet of the Old School -- Epitaph for an Adolescent Poet -- The Ghost of My Brother Juan -- Pyramid of the Moon, Instructions for Coming Down -- Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence -- Discreation -- The Creation of the World by the Animals -- The Chess Player in Dreams -- Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence -- Mythological.

Call Number

JFD 23-1405

ISBN

• 9780811231732
• 0811231739
• 9780811231749 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2022037443
• 40031682917

OCLC

1333265535

Author

Aridjis, Homero, author.

Title

Self-portrait in the zone of silence / Homero Aridjis ; translated from the Spanish by George McWhirter.

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1549

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1549.

Language

Text in translated English and parallel Spanish.

Added Author

McWhirter, George, translator.

Container of (expression): Aridjis, Homero. Autorretrato en la zona de silencio.

Container of (expression): Aridjis, Homero. Autorretrato en la zona de silencio. English.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780811231749

Other Standard Identifier

40031682917

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1405