Threnody for Joaquín Pasos
Subtitle: & other poems
By: Carlos Martínez Rivas ; with translations by Roger Hickin
Publisher: Cold Hub Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Lyttelton, New Zealand
Language: spa; eng
Translated from: spa
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780473367503
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Translations into English
Description: "Celebrated throughout the Hispanic world, but still almost unknown to English readers, Carlos Martínez Rivas (1924-1998) was a passionate and linguistically brilliant Nicaraguan poet who raised a 'solitary insurrection' against society's oppressive orthodoxies and hypocrisies. Only few English translations have appeared over the years in Journals and anthologies, and these are the first to be published as a collection"--Back cover.
Notes: Poems in Spanish with parallel text in English.
Table of contents: title: Translator's Note; title: Puerto Morazán / Port Morazán; title: El paraíso recobrado / Paradise regained; title: Canto fúnebre a la muerte de Joaquín Pasos / Threnody for Joaquín Pasos; title: Petición de mano / Marriage proposal; title: Ars poetica / Ars poetica; title: Las vírgenes prudentes / The wise virgins; title: La fábula / Fable; title: El pintor Español / The Spanish painter; title: Mundo / The world; title: La puesta en el sepulcro / Entombment; title: Un sueño / A dream – El frío y la transfusion de sangre de los museos / Cold and blood transfusions from the galleries; title: Please pay when served - vignette; title: Puertas de percepción / Doors of perception; title: Hamlet monólogo / Hamlet, a monologue; title: Albricias al poeta Octavio Robleto / My compliments to the poet Octavio Robleto; title: Al poeta Nicaragoüense Francisco Valle; exhortándolo a no escribir su correspondiente elegía a Alejandra Pizarnik / To the Nicaraguan Poet Francisco Valle; begging him not to write an elegy of his own for Alejandra Pizarnik; title: Cucarachas / Cockroaches; title: Tarde el mismo día / Late the same day; title: En casa con mis gatos y la Muerte / At home with my cats and Death; title: Canastas / Baskets; title: Cine en casa / 16 mm. / Home cinema / 16 mm.; title: Gotas de lluvia en la noche / Raindrops in the night; title: Proyecto de la obra maestra / The masterpiece project; title: Los amores / Our loves.