Research Catalog

Title

Certain chance : poems / by Pedro Salinas ; versions & introduction, David Lee Garrison ; prologue Pedro Salinas ; reminiscence, Willis Barnstone ; art, David Leach.

Author

Salinas, Pedro, 1892-1951.

Publication

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Garrison, David Lee.

Description

167 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Certain Chance is a rediscovery of the world that allows us to look at everyday realities - an orange, a city, an ocean, an automobile - as if the poet had placed these things in a kind of still-life painting. We see them from new perspectives that newly enable us to appreciate their color, contour, use, and meaning. Even love is seen from an unusual angle - the poet focuses on the mysterious intricacies and difficulties of intimate dialogue.
• As he develops these images and themes, Salinas often includes self-conscious reflections on the nature of poetic expression, the battle against the blank page, the rage for order."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Salinas, Pedro, 1892-1951

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-166).

Contents

A Life Because of Pedro Salinas / Willis Barnstone -- Page -- Imaginings -- Another You -- Vocation -- Hurried Traveler -- Juice -- Without Voice, Naked -- Could Be Any Day -- The Greedy Guest -- Navacerrada, April -- Shore -- Transition -- Illusions -- Peacefulness -- Far West -- Dominion -- Oceans -- The Gift of Matter -- Valley -- Difficult Woman -- Pleasure, at Eleven O'Clock -- Numbers -- "Route Nationale" -- Distracted Woman -- Madrid. Any Street -- Movie Theater -- 35 Candle Power -- Solitudes of Creation -- More -- Imminence -- The Key to February -- Watercolor -- Lover Beside Me -- Conch -- South, with Wind -- Looking at the Invisible -- Favorite Altitude -- Forgotten -- Recent Yes -- Warning -- Seeking, Finding -- Frame -- The Missing Tree -- Atalanta -- Path of Haste -- Goodbyes -- My Faith -- Friend -- Beach -- His Triumph -- Books of Poems by Pedro Salinas.

ISBN

0838754570 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

99058602

OCLC

• ocm42888117
• SCSB-3901729

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries