City of Memory and Other Poems
By: by José Emilio Pacheco ; translated by Cynthia Steele and David Lauer.
Contributors: Steele, Cynthia.; Lauer, David.; Pacheco, José Emilio.
Edition: First City Lights Ed.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng; spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780872863248
Description: "Includes full texts of Miro la tierra and Ciudad de la memoria, translated by Lauer and Steele, respectively. Useful translators' prefaces, introduction, biographical  note on author. En face. Major themes are Mexico City and the 1985 earthquake. Effective translations; very different styles of Lauer and Steele offer an interesting tool for teaching"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.