Research Catalog

Title

Save twilight / selected poems of Julio Cortázar ; translated by Stephen Kessler.

Author

Cortázar, Julio

Publication

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2016]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Cortázar, Julio.
• Kessler, Stephen, 1947-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xvii, 257 pages; 16 cm.

Summary

"World renowned as one of the masters of contemporary fiction, Julio Cortazar was also a prolific poet, who in his final months in Paris, ill with leukemia, assembled what he wanted saved of his life's work in verse. This expanded edition of Save Twilight, offers a bilingual survey of Cortazar's enduring poetry ranging through his various voices, moods, and styles"--

Series Statement

Pocket poets series ; number 53

Uniform Title

• Salvo el crepúsculo. English
• Pocket poets series no. 53.

Alternative Title

Salvo el crepúsculo.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Spanish poetry > 20th century
• Spanish poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Translations
• Translations.
• Poetry.

Note

• "Originally published as Salvo el crepúsculo by Editorial Nueva Imagen, S.A., Mexico City, 1984" -- Title page verso.

Language (note)

• Parallel text in English and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Billet Doux -- For Listening Through Headphones -- To Be Read in the Interrogative -- The Good Boy -- A Love Letter -- After the Party -- The Future -- Nocturne -- Chronicle for Caesar -- The Gods -- Air of the South -- Appel Rejete -- A friend tells me -- Time's Distribution -- Polychrony -- Get a Move On -- The Hero -- To a God Unknown -- Profit and Loss -- Pocket poems -- Cutthroat Tango -- The Knitters -- Blue Funk -- Sidewalks of Buenos Aires -- Maybe the Most Beloved -- Milonga -- The Brief Love -- After Such Pleasures -- Happy New Year -- One tradition that lasts -- Friends -- Come Here Alejandra -- The Other -- Law of the Poem -- A Sonnet in a Pensive Mood -- The Ceremony -- A Song for Nina -- Who without ceasing -- The Happy Child -- Infinite Voyage -- Speak, You Have Three Minutes -- Clearance Sale -- Moths -- Assignment -- "Le Dome" -- Calac keeps circling -- Clearcut -- If I'm to Live -- To a Woman -- Autumn Summary -- Etruscan Tombs -- Notre-Dame la Nuit -- The Interrogator -- Poem -- Masaccio -- Stele at a Crossroads -- Most of what follows -- The River's Fauna and Flora -- Blackout -- The Visit -- Dream on Fearlessly, Friend -- Inflation Lies -- The Getaway Polka -- Return Trip -- In an old Buenos Aires -- Journey Deferred -- Time Marches On -- Background -- The Pretender.

ISBN

• 9780872867093
• 0872867099

LCCN

^^2016008225

OCLC

945169870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library