The New World Written: Selected Poems
Maria Baranda
(Author)
Paul Hoover
(Editor)
Description
A lyrical collection of the finest poems by a leading Mexican poet, superbly translated for English readers "A literary event. . . . [Baranda's] work provides a bestiary as fierce as those found in the Odyssey, Beowulf, or The Waste Land."--Merrill Kaitz, Arts Fuse "A valuable collection . . . a metaphysical and philosophical luminosity of language that immerses the reader in cycles of life, death, and a quest for understanding what it means to be able to perceive."--Susan Smith Nash, World Literature Today The poetry of María Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world, transcendent in scope, attentive to the particular, and acutely attuned to the mystery of being. Absorbed by nature's otherness, Baranda seeks to inhabit the voices of the wind, of wings, night, day, and perhaps most keenly, water. These lyrical verses turn repeatedly to the longings and griefs of embodiment: "What is that God / To be praised with all our sadness / If not love / Or at least the wonder / Of being a body full of blood," Baranda asks. Drawing on epics such as the Aeneid and Beowulf, the mystical verses of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and writers who engage the landscape of shore and sea, from Daniel Defoe to Dylan Thomas, this sweeping collection brings together the finest poems of one of today's most powerful and innovative Mexican writers.
Product Details
Price
$30.00
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publish Date
June 22, 2021
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.9 X 1.2 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780300241242
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Award-winning poet María Baranda is a major figure in contemporary Latin American literature. Paul Hoover is the author of O, and Green: New and Selected Poems and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.