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Title

The sun unwound : original texts from occupied America / edited by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston.

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Dorn, Edward.
• Brotherston, Gordon.

Description

xiii pages, 269 unnumbered pages; 23 cm

Summary

• The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward Dorn and scholar Gordon Brotherston, The Sun Unwound gathers together the disparate voices of oppressed Americans through the centuries: the hymns, songs, and prayers of Mesoamericans and other native peoples; the verse of eight Latin American guerrillas of the 1960s; and works by three of Latin America's most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth century.
• The Native Americans saw their cultures obliterated; most of the guerrillas died in their struggles; and the modernists have faced persecution, prison, and torture for their left-wing convictions. Previously untranslated or unavailable to most North Americans, their poems offer a striking counterpoint to the colonialist, capitalist, Anglo-Saxon ethos.

Subject

• America > Poetry
• Latin America > Poetry

Note

• Anthology of Nahuatl, Mayan, Quechua, and Spanish poems.

Language (note)

• Spanish poems include Spanish original and English translation.

Contents

• Preface / Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston -- Nahuatl -- The Suns -- Quetzalcoatl, Lord of the Dawn -- Quetzalcoatl goes to the Underworld -- Good Times at Tula -- Tlaloc -- Huitzilopochtli -- Peyote Cure -- Tula Lament -- Flower Song -- War Song -- Emperors -- Famine -- The Four Continents -- Huitzilopochtli's promise -- Siege of Tenochtitlan -- Aztec Priests' Speech -- Maya -- Uinal -- Katun 13 Ahau -- Foreigners -- Christian Justice -- Finis -- Healing Song -- I built my House -- Death of Cuauhtemoc -- Quechua -- Thunder -- Dawn -- Potatoes, Maize -- Eclipse -- Viracocha & child -- Invasion -- Love Song -- Carnival -- Swallow -- Other Native American Languages -- Genesis -- Namandu -- Curing Song -- Suffering -- Lament -- Song to Fidel / Ernesto Che Guevara -- Forward Guerrillas / Luis de la Puente -- Song / Luis Nieto -- I Give You My Word -- Ars Poetica -- Flies -- Poem -- The New Journey / Javier Heraud --
• Let's Start Walking / Otto Rene Castillo -- Andres -- A dead youth -- The Price of a Country -- The Dead -- Now You Know he Died / Fernando Gordillo Cervantes -- Havana 1959 -- Otto Rene the Poet -- Requiem for Luis Augusto -- Goodbye to the Man I Was / Marco Antonio Flores -- To Fernando / Michele Najlis -- Don't Hide / Pablo Hernando Guerrero -- The black heralds -- Agape -- The eternal dice -- To my brother Miguel -- Verdict -- Who is it so shrill -- Time Time -- Our parents -- Dicotyledon clutch -- The suit I wore tomorrow -- I was off as usual along the veined street -- Tomorrow th'other day -- Vvaliant I strivve to back the blow -- I think of your sex -- Like my explanation -- In that corner, where we slept together -- The four walls of the cell -- It's possible as many as four magistrates -- Hope mourns among the cotton -- Done with the stranger with whom, late -- We are matched with ourselves, thread to the eye of a needle -- Death kneeling oozes --
• Every day I rise blindly -- The hightest points are cratered -- Of wood is my patience -- How you hunt us -- It hails so much, as if I should recall -- I'm going to talk about hope -- I'm laughing -- epistle to the transients -- The nine monsters -- He goes running, walking -- Black stone on a white stone -- Intensity and height -- He who will come -- The hungry man's rack -- Palms and guitar -- Paris, October 1936 -- The unfortunates -- The accent hangs from my shoe -- My heart will and won't have its hue -- Wedding march -- The soul that suffered from being its body -- Bedrock and Lode -- Hymn to the volunteers of the Republic -- The beggars -- Small liturgy for a hero of the Republic -- Mass -- Spain, take away this cup from me / Cesar Vallejo -- O Album de Pagu -- Canal -- A Fish -- Safety Matches -- Nothing / Patricia Galvao -- Tree Between Two Walls.

ISBN

1556432925

LCCN

98019843

OCLC

• 38976241
• ocm38976241

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries