The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work - Couverture souple

Jimenez, Juan Ramon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0983322007 ISBN 13 : 9780983322009

Editeur : Swan Isle Press, 2012

Synopsis

Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jiménez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements--the wellsprings of any kind of creation--are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.

A treasure for poets and writers, The Complete Perfectionist includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of "becoming" rather than an end product. In these insightful pages, a poet haunted by perfection reveals his methods of writing and revision, and measures the social and ethical dimensions of el trabajo gustoso, or pleasurable work. This revised and expanded edition includes many aphorisms recently published in Spanish and not previously included.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University and the author of numerous books on Spanish poetry.

Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, New Letters to a Young Poet by Joan Margarit, and The Complete Perfectionist by Juan Ramón Jiménez, all published by Swan Isle Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Swan Isle Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0983322007
• ISBN 13: 9780983322009
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 161
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible