Research Catalog

Title

Small hours of the night : selected poems of Roque Dalton / edited by Hardie St. Martin ; translated by Jonathan Cohen, James Graham, Ralph Nelson, Paul Pines, Hardie St. Martin and David Unger.

Author

Dalton, Roque, 1935-1975

Publication

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• St. Martin, Hardie
• Cohen, Jonathan, 1949 May 4-
• Graham, James, 1955-
• Nelson, Ralph
• Pines, Paul
• Unger, David

Description

xxxiii, 201 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change. Selected from 10 of his collections including two posthumous manuscripts, but none are from Poemas clandestinos (1980). The vital force of the intimate, conversational Spanish challenges the translators. Introductory essays by Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegría, and Hardie St. Martin recommend work for the classroom and the general reader"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Subject

• Spanish poetry > Translations into English
• 18.33 Spanish-American literature
• Spanish poetry
• El Salvador

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Translations.
• Translations (form)
• Poems (texts)
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201).

Contents

Preface. I Remember Roque, Ernesto Cardenal ; Roque Dalton: Poet and Revolutionary, Claribel Alegria ; Love Falls Like a Generous Rain, Hardie St. Martin -- The window in my face. Study with a Little Tedium ; The Crazy Ones ; Time for Ashes ; Hating Love ; Monday ; My Horse ; Listen ; Poems-In-Law to Lisa ; Dream Far Away from Time ; Vernacular Elegy for Francisco Sorto ; Minor Chorus of the Fifth Cell -- The injured party's turn. The Decision ; Island on the Fifth Floor ; Storm ; Stillborn Parable ; The Bad Example ; Because I Spoke Out ; I See ; Insomnia ; The Disciple ; The Tropics ; Naked Woman ; b Maria Tecun ; The Art of Poetry ; Madrigal ; Words in front of the Sea ; The Sixth Commandment ; What a Crazy Man Said to Me ; Megalomania ; The Pope ; Old Woman with Small Boy ; Another Dead Woman ; Cesar Vallejo ; Vanity ; Small Hours of the Night ; The Bureaucrats ; Mariano the Musician Has Died ; Epitaph ; Terrible Thing ; I Wanted -- The sea. The Sea -- The testimonies. Juan Cunjama, Sorcerer ; Overlook ; The Desert ; Rite for the Birth of a Flower on the Great Pyramid ; The Deer ; Pine ; Homage to Sage ; Relative -- Minor hells. My Country's Far Away ; Forgetting ; Middle Age ; Leaves ; Passing the Factory ; Now You See Why ; When Death ; Tied Down to the Sea ; I Remember When I'd Talk of Lisa ; A Dead Girl in the Ocean ; Memory ; The Prodigal Son ; German-American Hotel -- Tavern and other places. I. The country. Latin America ; 27 Years ; Fear ; Soldier's Rest ; The Captain ; In a Fit of Anger ; The National Soul ; The Law Enforcer ; The Sure Hand of God -- II. The country. The foreigners. Sir Thomas ; Samantha ; Matthew ; The Bishop ; Lady Ann ; The Firstborn ; Sir Thomas ; Matthew ; Sir Thomas ; Matthew ; Samantha ; Lady Ann ; The Firstborn -- III. The country. Poems from the last prison. Prison Again ; Preparing the Next Hour ; Independence Day ; Summer ; Your Company ; I Smell Bad ; Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper ; Permission to Wash Up ; Some Longings ; Number 357 -- Six prose poems. The Morning I Met My Father -- History. The Young People ; A Not Exactly Optimistic Tragedy ; Springtime in Jevani ; The Social Being Determines Social Conscience ; In Case of Doubt ; Love Story ; 50th Anniversary ; Tavern -- Love hits me harder than springtime. Love ; Zdena ; What's Missing ; 35 Years ; Sunday Morning ; Seeing You Naked ; Date -- A lightly repellent book. Therapeutics ; Saudade ; Epitaph ; Tense Conversation ; Trick ; No, I Wasn't Always This Ugly -- Toadstools. VIII ; IX.

ISBN

• 1880684357
• 9781880684351

LCCN

96000867

OCLC

• ocm34077611
• 34077611
• SCSB-2097740

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library