{"product_id":"maria-victoria-atencia-roberta-ann-quance-9781908343918","title":"Maria Victoria Atencia: Legend of Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and mysticism of work by one of Spain's foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Atencia's poetry the poetic subject is often seen as someone who occupies an interior space, either crossing over the threshold from the outside world to an inner one (a garden, a house, a castle), or moving from the inner, home space to one even more interior: the world of dreams and imagination and hope, which can project outward into liminal spaces of the sky or the sea. A very basic paradox of Christian mystical experience- of abasement and magnification - haunts Atencia's work. She has made her own one of its fundamental tenets: the purging of self, the shedding of all trace of worldly attachment in order to 'make room' for experience of a different reality: the self's sense of 'nothingness' in the face of beauty is a prized moment in and of itself; it is sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAtencia's definitive manner: classically shaped verse in the tradition of the'pure poetry' of the Generation of 1927, which makes myth of a womanly self, is amply explored in this first major English edition of her work to appear since 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaria Victoria Atencia was born in Malaga (Andalusia) in 1931 and has lived there or in the country thereabouts all of her life Although trained originally as a pianist she chose a vocation for poetry, instead, publishing her first work in 1953 and continuing to publish to the present day. In 2010 she was given the Federico Garcia Lorca prize for poetry, in recognition of a lifetime of achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoberta Quance is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen's University Belfast. She is author of books on mythology and modernity in modern literature and desire in the poetry of Lorca as well as articles on women writers and artists associated with the Generation of 1927 and translations of work by Carlos Piera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberta Ann Quance,Maria Victoria Atencia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908343915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908343918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.50d","brand":"Roberta Ann Quance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241539940607,"sku":"9781908343918","price":43.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_793118b9-2622-4bc3-a67c-afc933f85f16.jpg?v=1772654870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maria-victoria-atencia-roberta-ann-quance-9781908343918","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}