The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems by Belli, Carlos Germán

The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780997228793)

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The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems by Belli, Carlos Germán

The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems

$24.00
The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems by Belli, Carlos Germán

The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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New translations of poems by prominent Peruvian poet Carlos Germán Belli.

This selection of poems by internationally renowned Peruvian poet Carlos Germán Belli tempers a dark, ironic vision of worldly injustice with the "red midnight sun" of hope. Belli's contemplative verses express faith in language, in bodily joy, and in artistic form. These thirty-five poems explore public and domestic spaces of confinement and freedom, from paralysis to the ease of a bird in its "azure cloister."

Translations by Karl Maurer retain Belli's original meter, follow his complex syntax, and meet the challenges of his poetic language, which ranges from colloquial Peruvian slang to the ironic use of seventeenth-century Spanish. This bilingual edition also includes notes and reflections on Belli and on the art of translation. Beyond introducing American readers to a major presence in world poetry, The Azure Cloister offers a fresh approach to the translation of contemporary verse in Spanish.


Author: Carlos Germán Belli
ISBN-10: 0997228792
ISBN-13: 9780997228793
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2022
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.70d
By Carlos Germán Belli
By Carlos Germán Belli
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Carlos Germán Belli, born in Lima, Perú, in 1927, is considered one of the most prominent poets of his generation in Latin America and Spanish literature. He has published over twenty-five books, has received a Guggenheim grant, honored with the Pablo Neruda Prize in Ibero-American Poetry, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007. Karl Maurer (1948-2015) was professor of classics at the University of Dallas. He is the author of Interpolation in Thucydides and has translated works by Borges, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Jacob Balde, and Virgil, among others. 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.

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