Poemas de buen amor... Y a veces de fantasia / Poems of Good Love... And Sometimes Fantasy - Couverture souple

Mir, Pedro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845235606 ISBN 13 : 9781845235604

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

In following up his translation of Contracanto a Walt Whitman / Countersong to Walt Whitman, the publication of Jonathan Cohen’s translation of Poemas de buen amor... y a veces de fantasia, by the great national poet of the Dominican Republic, and an unquestionably major Caribbean poet, Pedro Mir, shows another side entirely of Mir’s work: intensely political in the Countersong, sensual and erotic in Poems of Good Love. There is a challenge that the translator rises to in making English language poems that are truthful to the deliberately opaquer language of this collection in comparison to the communicative clarity of Mir’s more overtly political collections. Here, Mir sets himself the task of writing about love in a way that is truthful to the Marxist historical materialism he embraced, in contrast to what he saw as the conventions of love poetry where love is seen as some kind of disembodied spiritual experience. As the introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant makes clear, there were negatives as well as positives that followed from the task Mir set himself. It is obvious that fifty years ago (1969), feminism had not yet penetrated Mir’s Latin American Marxism and there are elements of the patriarchal, indeed of the religiously Catholic in Mir’s insistence that the chief purpose of love is procreation. What Mir triumphantly gives us, though, is a celebration of the carnality of love and the sheer joy of sex as the biological gift that (perhaps) ensures our continuance as a human species.

With an introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pedro Mir (1913–2000) is recognized as the Dominican Republic's foremost literary figure of the twentieth century. Since publishing his first poems in 1937, he sought through literature to place the Caribbean experience in global historical perspective. He also produced work in the fields of history, fiction, and art criticism and theory. In 1993 he received the National Prize for Literature, the highest honor a literary artist can receive in the Dominican Republic. On the occasion of Mir's death, the president of the Dominican Republic declared three days of national mourning and celebrated the poet's memory and his work: '[Don Pedro] will always be with us because his thinking was transcendent, and he truly fathomed the national Dominican soul.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: espagnol
• ISBN 10: 1845235606
• ISBN 13: 9781845235604
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
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