Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 167 g
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 167 g
Reihe: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
ISBN: 978-0-691-09098-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press
One of South America's most celebrated contemporary poets takes us on a fantastic voyage to mysterious lands and seas, into the psyche, and to the heart of the poem itself. Night Journey is the English-language debut of the work that won María Negroni an Argentine National Book Award. It is a book of dreams--dreams she renders with surreal beauty that recalls the work of her compatriot Alejandra Pizarnik, with the penetrating subtlety of Borges and Calvino.In sixty-two tightly woven prose poems, Negroni deftly infuses haunting imagery with an ironic, personal spirituality. Effortlessly she navigates the nameless subject to the slopes of the Himalayas, to a bar in Buenos Aires, through war, from icy Scandinavian landscapes to the tropics, across seas, toward a cemetery in the wake of Napoleon's hearse, by train, by taxis headed in unrequested directions, past mirrors and birds, between life and death.Night Journey reflects a mastery of a traditional form while brilliantly expressing a modern condition: the multicultural, multifaceted individual, ever in motion. Displacement abounds: a "medieval tabard" where a pelvis should be, a "lipless grin," a "beach severed from the ocean." In one poem "nomadic cities" whisk past. In another, smiling cockroaches loom in a visiting mother's eyes.Anne Twitty, whose elegant translations are accompanied by the Spanish originals, remarks in her preface that the book's "indomitable literary intelligence" subdues an unspoken terror--helplessness. Yet, as observed by the angel Gabriel, the consoling voice of wisdom, only by accepting the journey for what it is can one discover its "hidden splendor," the "invisible center of the poem." As readers of this magnificent work will discover, this is a journey that, because its every fleeting image conjures a thousand words of fertile silence, can be savored again and again.
Weitere Infos & Material
ix Kidnapped by the Inexorable - TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
2 Esqueletos bajo el cielo - 3 Skeletons under the Sky
4 La jaula en flor - 5 Cage in Bloom
6 Cat?strofe - 7 Catastrophe
8 Ecuy?re y militar - 9 Equestrienne and Officer
10 Los bosques de marmol - 11 The Marble Forests
12 La p?rdida - 13 Loss
14 Gabriel - 15 Gabriel
16 Her?ldica - 17 Heraldry
18 Van Gogh - 19 Van Gogh
20 The Great Watcher - 21 The Great Watcher
22 El espejo del alma - 23 Mirror of the Soul
24 La ciudad n?made - 25 Nomadic City
26 El padre - 27 The Father
28 Di?logo con Gabriel I - 29 Dialogue with Gabriel I
30 Lido - 31 Lido
32 La visita - 33 The Visit
34 La gu?a telef?nica - 35 The Telephone Book
36 El mapa del Tiempo - 37 The Map of Time
38 Napole?n II - 39 Napoleon II
40 Los amantes - 41 The Lovers
42 Los ojos de Dios - 43 The Eyes of God
44 El caballo blanco - 45 The White Horse
46 El beb? - 47 The Baby
48 Las tres madonas - 49 The Three Madonnas
50 Tout cherche tout - 51 Tout cherche tout
52 Carta a S?vres - 53 Letter to S?vres
54 El diccionario infinito - 55 The Infinite Dictionary
56 Las ventanas del siglo - 57 Windows on the Century
58 Di?logo con Gabriel II - 59 Dialogue with Gabriel II
60 Los dos cielos - 61 The Two Heavens
62 Fata Morgana - 63 Fata Morgana
64 New Jersey - 65 New Jersey
66 Rosamundi - 67 Rosamundi
68 Encrucijada - 69 Crossroads
70 La ceguera - 71 Blindness
72 Midgard - 73 Midgard
74 La ropa - 75 Clothes
76 El diluvio - 77 The Deluge
78 Sleeping Beauty - 79 Sleeping Beauty
80 El viaje - 81 The Journey
82 Die Zeit - 83 Die Zeit
84 Di?logo con Gabriel III - 85 Dialogue with Gabriel III
86 Teor?a de la luz - 87 Theory of Light
88 Los hilos del ser - 89 Threads of Being
90 Over Exposure - 91 Over Exposure
92 Eternidad - 93 Eternity
94 Los osos - 95 The Bears
96 El mundo no termina - 97 The World Doesn't End
98 Cuento de hadas - 99 Fairytale
100 Terra Incognita - 101 Terra Incognita
102 Peridural y despojo - 103 Epidural and Plunder
104 Hieros gamos - 105 Hieros gamos
106 Di?logo con Gabriel IV - 107 Dialogue with Gabriel IV
108 Simurgh - 109 Simurgh
110 El libro de los seres - 111 The Book of Being
112 El techo del mundo - 113 The Roof of the World
114 El juego sin nombre - 115 The Anonymous Game
116 Hurg?ly?, ciudad peregrina - 117 Hurg?ly?, Peregrine city
118 Los cielos del oto?o - 119 Autumn Skies
122 Teor?a del buen morir - 123 Theory of a Good Death
124 Casandra - 125 Cassandra
126 Carta a m? misma - 127 Letter to Myself
