Research Catalog

Title

Poetry of transition : Mexican poetry of the 1960s and 1970s / edited by Linda Scheer & Miguel Flores Ramirez.

Publication

Ann Arbor : Translation Press, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Scheer, Linda.
• Flores Ramírez, Miguel.

Description

204 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Includes poetry by José Carlos Becerra, José Emilio Pacheco, Francisco Hernández, Homero Aridjis, David Huerta, Jaime Reyes, José de Jesús Sampedro, Miguel Flores Ramírez, Francisco Cervantes, Marco Antonio Campos, Elva Macías, Ernesto Trejo

Alternative Title

Mexican poetry, 1960s & 1970s

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1960-1970
• Mexican poetry > 20th century > Translations into English
• Mexican poetry
• Lyrik
• Anthologie
• Mexiko

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Translations.
• Poésie.

Note

• Translation of many poems from the Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 204).

Contents

• Fragment from : Seated on a stone ; The rules of the game ; Ragtime ; La Venta ; The Maltese falcon ; (drawing by José Luis Cuevas) ; (the drowned) ; (Via Veneto) / José Carlos Becerra -- The climbing vine ; Gift of Heraclitus ; 4 ; Don't ask me how time goes by ; Footnote to Jorge Manrique ; A lecture on crabs ; Mirror of enigmas : monkeys ; Scorpions ; Three Canadian poems ; Physiology of the slug ; Autumn afternoon in an old country house ; Old Forest Hill Road (Toronto) ; Eyes of the fish ; Galdós ; Jardin de niños : 17 ; Graffiti / José Emilio Pacheco
• The old man and the gunpowder ; The dream and the vision ; Post card from Madrid ; The poet who played the flute ; From the empty cage ; Music by Mahler ; Sunday ; Under the volcano ; One ; Three ; 1/7/24 ; Street / Francisco Hernández -- Before the kingdom ; I'll give you my weapons the northern wine ; Night dies over a broken apple ; Before he dies the old man sees a young man approach ; He had a vial where he kept algae ; Faster than thought the image moves ; In the hand air ; Angels feel themselves in light ; The song under the mist ; Woman goes naked under each glance ; Like the earth / Homero Aridjis
• Residence ; Garden ; III ; Details ; There is a small prophecy in the air's poorest wall ; Today is threshold and immediate possibility, haste and writing ; There is no "language of the look" : it's a stammering ; There's something like a strange coating in my mouth, a taste of ; Afternoon has arrived like an eye of dust, its matter fallen in ; ...What hasn't been said in millennial, it's in the hear of a / David Huerta -- The defeated ; Without memory or oblivion / Jaime Reyes
• Joe & Marilyn ; The cave of god second printing ; Total union ; To Caroline ; Or Volga 1973 ; After everything ; Sam's blues ; Regarding the tactical need for a prior politization / José de Jesús Sampedro -- Guernica ; Short takes ; One eye is missing ; Ars poetica ; Brevity gasps ; Ezra Pound ; Poet's death ; Earthquake picture ; Vital spaces ; Two images of poets two ; One day mirrors will have aged ; To talk a bit / Miguel Flores Ramírez -- The chronicle was drawn ; The minstrel's dream ; VI ; VIII ; Stained was the grass; The devil memory ; V ; XI ; Pardonless autumn / Francisco Cervantes
• Semantics ; A chat with Walt Whitman and the same phantom ; I begin ; Creation of the poet or misinterpretation of Blake ; Elegy (1) ; My brother left little by little ; Florence in the world's heart ; What has become of my friends? ; Early morning in Athens ; That voice in Pireus / Marco Antonio Campos -- Image ; Today ; Adonis ; The rooster on the balcony ; Irreverence ; Solicitude ; II ; XL ; Cold spark ; Wing of sun ; The untouchable love ; Absence of the unicorn / Elva Macías
• Your room ; In short ; My tongue is the tongue ; It's your name and it's also December ; This is what happened ; The cloud unfolding ; Cipriana (1881-1975) ; Tonight this house speak ; E. gives a name ; E. at the Zocalo / Ernesto Trejo.

ISBN

• 0931556066
• 9780931556067

LCCN

83018008

OCLC

• ocm10100627
• 10100627
• SCSB-97317

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library