In Order to Talk With the Dead: Selected Poems - Couverture souple

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Teillier, Jorge

 
9780292781238: In Order to Talk With the Dead: Selected Poems
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0292781237 ISBN 13 : 9780292781238
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1993

Synopsis

"In order to talk with the dead
you have to know how to wait:
they are fearful
like the first steps of a child.
But if we are patient
one day they will answer us
with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror,
with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace,
with a dark return of birds
before the glance of a girl
who waits motionless on the threshold."

-from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"

Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.

Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore."

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À propos de l'auteur

Winner of several prestigious awards, including the Gabriela Mistral Prize, Jorge Teillier (1935–1996) spent much of his adult life working as a reviewer and journalist for many of Chile’s leading magazines and newspapers.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0292781237
ISBN 13 
9780292781238
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
167
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780292738676: In Order to Talk With the Dead: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier

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ISBN 10 :  0292738676 ISBN 13 :  9780292738676
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1993
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