A brief history of music & Fourteen forms of melancholy
Subtitle: Breve historia de la música & Catorce formas de melancolía
By: Eduardo Chirinos ; translated by G. C. Racz
Contributors: Chirinos Arrieta, Eduardo, 1960-2016; Chirinos Arrieta, Eduardo, 1960-2016; Chirinos Arrieta, Eduardo, 1960-2016; Chirinos Arrieta, Eduardo, 1960-2016; Racz, Gregary Joseph, translator
Edition: Bilingual edition.
Publisher: Diálogos
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781944884895
Subjects: Music; Poetry
Other titles: Brief history of music and Fourteen forms of melancholy; Breve historia de la música & Catorce formas de melancolía
Description: "A Brief History of Music is the first complete English-language translation of the late Peruvian writer Eduardo Chirinos's Breve historia de la música, which was awarded the inaugural Premio Case de América de Poesía Americana prize in 2011. The poems in this singular, often poignant collection reflect Chirinos's fascination with music, one of the recurrent topics of his extensive poetic oeuvre alongside childhood, animals, film, the vagaries of memory, painting, and even the poetic tradition itself. Each of the twenty-three carefully crafted pieces here provides an imaginative scenario accompanying a chosen musical piece, from an anonymous Berbérie song to twentieth-century atonal works, featuring favorite compositions by such classical greats as Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Sibelius, Debussy, Gershwin, and Stravinsky, among others. This ninth volume of Chirinos's verse available in English, all translated by G. J. Racz, also includes the delightfully playful, meditative chapbook Fourteen Forms of Melancholy, whose wistful, though ludic tone covers many of the themes found throughout Chirinos's unique, affecting work. This is the second collaboration between Chirinos and Racz to be published by Diálogos Books. While the Wolf Is Around appeared from this press in 2014"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English and Spanish, with poems translated from Spanish.