Research Catalog

Title

Pieces of shadow : selected poems of Jaime Sabines / translated by W.S. Merwin ; foreword by Mario del Valle.

Author

Sabines, Jaime

Publication

Mexico : Papeles Privados ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Marsilio Publishers, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019

Description

205, [2] p. : port.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & Spanish

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Selected poems of Jaime Sabines
• Sabines

Subject

• Sabines, Jaime > Translations into English
• 1900-1999
• Mexican poetry > 20th century
• Traducciones al inglés
• Siglo XX

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]).

Language (note)

• Spanish and English on facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Agradecimientos = Acknowledgments -- Presentación = Foreword -- Nota del traductor = Translator's note -- Lento, amargo animal = Slow, bitter animal -- Yo no lo sé de cierto = I don't know it for certain -- Uno es el hombre = One is the man -- Sitio de amor = Site of love -- Entresuelo = Mezzanine -- Los amorosos = The lovers -- Del corazón del hombre = On the heart of a man -- De la esperanza = On hope -- De la noche = On night -- De la ilusión = On illusion -- De la muerte = On death -- Del adiós = On good-bye -- Del mito = On myth -- A estas horas, aqui = At this time, here -- Los he visto en el cine = I've seen them at the movies -- Tia Chofi = Aunt Chofi -- Wanting to cry -- Ayer estuve observando = Yesterday I was watching -- ¿Qué es el canto de los pájaros, Adán? = What is the song of the birds, Adam? -- Fuimos al mar = We went to the sea -- Tarumba -- A la casa del dia = Into the house of day -- A caballo, Tarumba = To horse, Tarumba --^
• Si alguien te dice = If anyone tells you -- ¿Qué putas puedo hacer? = What the hell can I do? -- Quebrado como un plato = Broken like a plate -- Después de leerr = After reading -- Ahi viene un galope subterráneo = Here comes a subterranean gallop -- Te quiero a las diez de la mañana = I love you at ten in the morning -- Leyendo a Tagore = Reading Tagore -- Si hubiera de morir = If I were going to die -- Me gustan los aletazos = I take pleasure in the way the rain beats -- Soy mi cuerpo = I am my body -- A medianoche = At midnight -- Dentro de poco = Before long you will offer -- Con la flor del domingo = The Sunday flower -- Tú tienes lo que busco = You have what I look for -- El paralitico = The paralytic -- Con los nervios saliéndome del cuerpo = With the nerves coming out of my body -- He aqui que estamos reunidos = Here we are, together -- Ando buscando a un hombre = I'm out to find a man -- Tengo ojos para ver = I have eyes to see --^
• Desde los cuerpos = From the blue and black bodies -- Rodeado de mariposas negras = Surrounded by butterflies black -- Qué costumbre tan salvaje = What a barbarous custom -- Canonicemos a las putas = We ought to confer sainthood upon the whores -- Dejé mi cadáver a orillas de la carretera = I left my corpse at the edge of a road -- Me preocupa el televisor = I'm worried about the television -- Las montañas = The mountains -- Diario oficial = Official diary -- El peatón = The pedestrian -- Pensándolo bien = Considering it carefully -- La luna = The moon -- Recado c. Rosario Castellanos = Message to Rosario Castellanos -- Sisifo = Sisyphus -- La esfinge = The sphinix -- Familia = Family -- Caballos de fuerza = Horsepower -- El gato loco = The crazy tomcat -- ¡Aleluya, la madre! = Hallelujah to mother! -- El que se quedó sin dientes = The one without teeth -- Preocupación de Job = Job's worry.

ISBN

• 1568860234 (hardcover, USA)
• 1568860242 (pbk., USA)
• 9686657574 (hardcover, Mexico) (canceled/invalid)
• 9686657586 (pbk., Mexico) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 34482072
• SCSB-10957283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library