Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These selections are arranged in five chronological "diwans" or chapters, which are interrupted by a series of "books" that supply extra detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author.
North African literature. --- african literature. --- african poetry. --- al andalus. --- algeria. --- anthology. --- arabo berber literature. --- book club reads. --- global literature. --- historical survey. --- historical. --- jewish literature. --- libya. --- lit analysis. --- lit students. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary studies. --- literary. --- literature and culture. --- maghreb. --- mauritania. --- morocco. --- north africa. --- north african poets. --- oral literatures. --- poetry collection. --- spain. --- tunisia. --- world poetry.
Choose an application
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939). Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision-perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature-in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.
POETRY / General. --- Vallejo, César, --- Vallejo Mendoza, César Abraham, --- Mendoza, César Abraham Vallejo, --- Vallejo, César Abraham, --- Valʹekho, Sesar, --- Valliecho, Kaisar, --- Vallejo, Cholo, --- 20th century poetry. --- award winner. --- christian. --- christianity. --- collected works. --- creative writing. --- emotional. --- faith. --- life story. --- mfa. --- national book award. --- peruvian poetry. --- poetics. --- poetry collection. --- poetry studies. --- poetry translation. --- poetry. --- realistic. --- spanish language poetry. --- spanish language. --- theology. --- translation. --- true story. --- world poetry.
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|