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Title The Oxford book of Latin American poetry : a bilingual anthology / edited by Cecilia Vicuņa and Ernesto Livon-Grosman.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description xxxviii, 561 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language Includes poems in various Latin American languages with translations into English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Preface -- An introduction to Mestizo poetics / Cecilia Vicuņa -- A historical introduction to Latin American poetry / Ernesto Livon-Grosman -- Maya scribes ; And all was destroyed (excerpt) ; Codex Cantares Mexicanos (excerpt) ; The Florentine codex (excerpt) ; Inca Khipu / Anonymous -- Beautiful maiden / Inca Garcilaso de la Vega -- Popol Vuh (excerpt) / Anonymous -- The Araucaniad (excerpt) / Alonso de Ercilla y Zuņiga -- The Mestizo's ballade / Mateo Rosas de Oquendo -- Cachiuia ; Festival of the Inca ; Principal accountant and treasurer ; Priests who force the Indians to weave cloth / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala -- Define your city ; An anatomy of the ailments suffered by the body of the republic, in all its members, and complete definition of what has ever been the city of Bahia ; To the city of Bahia laying his eyes first upon his city he sees that its merchants are the primary cause of its ruin, because it longs after useless and deceitful goods ; To the Palefaces of Bahia ; Upon finding an arm taken from the statue of the Christ Child of Our Lady of the Wonders, which was profaned by unbelievers at the sea of Bahia / Gregorio de Matos -- First dream (excerpt) ; This coloured counterfeit that thou beholdest ; Tarry, shadow of my scornful treasure ; Diuturnal infirmity of hope... ; Villancico VIII (excerpt) / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- The book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (excerpt) ; The book of Chilam Balam of Mani (excerpt) ; Grant Don Juan V life ; Eight-line acrostic / Anonymous -- Social virtues and illuminations / Simon Rodriguez -- Atahualpa death prayer / Anonymous -- New patriotic dialogue / Bartolome Hidalgo -- To the most holy Virgin Mary ; Multiform salve (excerpt) ; Alphabetical-numerical prophecy / Francisco Acuņa de Figueroa --
The slippery one / Hilario Ascasubi -- Song of exile / Antonio Goncalves Dias -- Intimate ideas (excerpt) / Manuel Antonio Alvares de Azevedo -- The Wall Street inferno / Sousândrade -- Martin Fierro (excerpt) / Jose Hernandez -- The slave ship (tragedy on the sea) (excerpt) / Antonio de Castro Alves -- Cueca of the lady conductors / Rosa Araneda -- Waking dream ; Love in the city / Jose Marti -- Lesbian ; Afra / João da Cruz e Sousa -- Ars / Jose Asuncion Silva -- Portuguese language / Olavo Bilac -- Love your rhythm ; The wandering song ; EHEU! ; Nocturne ; Philosophy ; The optimist's salutation / Ruben Dario --Three haikus : Willow, Cherimoya tree, Bug ; Ideogram lantern (excerpt) ; Havana impressions / Jose Juan Tablada -- The lady i ; The towers ; Favila / Jose Maria Eguren -- America invertida ; City with no name (excerpts) / Joaquin Torres Garcia -- Lunatic Tertulia (excerpt) / Julio Herrera y Reissig -- A philosopher's agony ; Modern Buddhism / Augusto dos Anjos -- It's the silence ; Mare Vitae / Pedro Kilkerry -- To Eros ; The ineffable ; The intruder / Delmira Agustini -- Anthology ; Green-black ; My last poem / Manuel Bandeira -- Emotion and advantage of proven depth ; All morning the wind has spoken / Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva -- "This Hades is fluid. . ." (excerpt) / Xul Solar -- Drops of gall ; Airflower ; A word ; The other woman / Gabriela Mistral -- Brazilwood (excerpt) ; The history of Brazil ; Cannibal Manifesto (excerpts) / Oswald de Andrade -- The mix ; My lumy ; Totem night ; You have to look for it ; Votive offering / Oliverio Girondo -- The black heralds ; Trilce (excerpts) : XXIII, XXXVI ; Black stone on a white stone ; Telluric and magnetic ; I stayed on to warm up the ink in which I drown ; There are days, there comes to me an exuberant, political hunger / Cesar Vallejo --
World of seven wells ; An ear / Alfonsina Storni -- Canto I, Altazor (excerpt) ; Minuit ; Piano ; Non Serviam / Vicente Huidobro -- Inspiration ; Nocturne ; A very interesting preface (excerpt) / Mario de Andrade -- Song of the old male (excerpt) / Pablo de Rokha -- Life (excerpt) / Maria Sabina -- Village on the river ; Why? / Juan L. Ortiz -- Khirkhilas (excerpt) / Gamaliel Churata -- Cobra Norato (excerpt) / Raul Bopp -- Prelude in Boricua ; Black dance / Luis Pales Matos -- The Golem ; The mythical founding of Buenos Aires ; Borges and I ; Limits / Jorge Luis Borges -- Canticle IX ; Magic love / Rosamel Del Valle -- Pyrargyrite metal, 9 ; Song ; Speech ; Second rose motif / Cecilia Meireles -- Death without end (excerpt) ; Elegy ; Pauses I / Jose Gorostiza -- This is that ; A passion for measure ; In the middle of the way ; F / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Sensemaya ; Son number 6 ; My last name I, a family elegy / Nicolas Guillen -- L.A. nocturne : the angels ; Nocturne : fear / Xavier Villaurrutia -- To wait ; Trafalgar Square / Cesar Moro -- Melancholy inside families ; Walking around ; Right, Comrade, it's the hour of the garden / Pablo Neruda -- Climate ; Lullaby / Aurelio Arturo -- Mansion of foam ; Deserted blue ; The I's illumination ; Visitor extremes / Omar Caceres -- Aloysius Acker is coming into the world ; Without time signature, hurrying ad lib/played freely, etc. / Martin Adan -- Thoughts in Havana (excerpt) ; Fifes, epiphany, goats ; Death of time / Jose Lezama Lima -- The way it must be ; Hue ; Aquatic rite / Enrique Molina -- God creates the Andes ; The myth of the jaguar / Pablo Antonio Cuadra -- Sunstone (excerpt) ; Here ; Exclamation ; Altar / Octavio Paz -- Warsong of the things (excerpt) / Joaquin Pasos -- No president's statue escapes ; 1973 ; U.S.A. ; The individual's soliloquy / Nicanor Parra --
Easy for singing ; Dumb, sad, and thoughtful ; Goddamn the empty sky / Violeta Parra -- You shouldn't copy pound ; Qedeshim Qedeshoth / Gonzalo Rojas -- Bulletin and elegy of Indian enslavement (excerpt) / Cesar Davila Andrade -- Education by stone ; Tale of an architect ; The unconfessing artist ; A knife all blade / João Cabral do Melo Neto -- Variations on time ; The obstacle / Olga Orozco -- Metamorphosis ; Poor world ; A guest ; I did not love you / Idea Vilariņo -- Anniversary of a vision (excerpt) / Jaime Saenz -- From the fleeting and permanent (excerpt) ; Dark bond / Juan Sanchez Pelaez -- Maria's first death ; Paracas Pyramid Performance, 1974 ; Khipu, 1965 / Jorge Eduardo Eielson -- Two murals : U.S.A. (excerpts) / Carlos Martinez Rivas -- Portable Madi dictionary (excerpts) / Gyula Kosice -- MADI / The MADI Movement -- Death of Thomas Merton (excerpt) / Ernesto Cardenal -- Livid light ; Silence around an ancient stone ; Malinche / Rosario Castellanos -- Antônio Conselheiro and the Canudos Rebellion / Apolônio Alves dos Santos -- I bury my hand in the sand ; Exercises ; Final scene ; Family secret ; Curriculum vitae / Blanca Varela -- Hear the Earth ; Drink Coca Cola / Decio Pignatari -- Tortilla ; Sestina of Mea Culpa ; I trust now in nothing / Carlos German Belli -- Black Cola Jara ; The trivial jungle / Francisco Madariaga -- The displaced applicant (excerpt) ; Eva Peron at the stake (excerpt) / Leonidas Lamborghini -- amereida (excerpt) / amereida -- Object-poems / Edgardo Antonio Vigo -- The father's monologue with his infant son ; Those who are going to die can't wait / Enrique Lihn -- The ear's pavilion ; Born and dies ; Galaxias (excerpt) : flower blower ; Galaxias (excerpt) : Reza calla y trabaja ; Galaxias (excerpt) : inscribedcorpse / Haroldo de Campos --
CDLVI ; CDLXXXI ; XDV / Juan Gelman -- Eggtangle ; Eye for an eye ; To put on a mask / Augusto de Campos -- The leather telegram / Jaime Jaramillo Escobar -- The foreigners lie about what they want / Lorenzo Ramos -- The words of Pa'i Antonio / Antonio Martinez -- Mother, here we are / Aurelio Frez -- Grape harvests ; The dwellers (excerpt) / Alfredo Silva Estrada -- Meditate ; The Authoritarian School and how a respectable literary genre was born ; Threat ; Romulus Augustulus ; Sexologic / Gerardo Deniz -- A moment captured by a Japanese painter... ; Untitled ; "Housing complex" / Isabel Fraire -- Exodus of the Gods (excerpt) / Sergio Mondragon -- Poem with simultaneous translation Spanish-Spanish ; Nuptial song / Susana Thenon -- No, I wasn't always this ugly ; The country--Sir Thomas ; Toadstools VIII / Roque Dalton -- Nocturnal singer ; From the other side ; From a copy of "Les Chants de Maldoror" ; Fiesta ; Useless frontiers / Alejandra Pizarnik -- Restriction of nocturnal movements ; Conjurer's tract ; Vision of Hiroshima / Oscar Hahn -- The world's practice ; A bird's Earthness ; Good-bye to the twentieth century / Eugenio Montejo -- The most amusing song of the devil (A prose work half in verse, no joke. . .) (excerpt) / Osvaldo Lamborghini -- A meeting at Cho-Fu-Sa ; Kafka reborn / Jose Kozer -- Contra natura (excerpt) / Rodolfo Hinostroza -- The dead conquerors ; Poem on Jonah and the disalienated ; Appendix to the poem on Jonah and the disalienated / Antonio Cisneros -- Remarks concerning the exuberant activity of "phonetic confabulation" or "the language of birds"... ; Breathing house, almost the (author's) little house ; Ear ; The new novel : the poet as superman ; The structure of political thought / Juan Luis Martinez --
Migrations (excerpt) / Gloria Gervitz -- Everything calm, immobile ; Which to paint which first ; Not time yet ; Where the yellow / Soledad Fariņa -- Catatau (excerpt) ; Metamorphosis (excerpt) / Paulo Leminski -- Homeland ; Heels over head with life ; I'm afraid ; Canto 17 : Cumbal ; Canto 18 : Soacha ; Canto 3 : Dabeiba / Maria Mercedes Carranza -- It wasn't in Sicily, it wasn't here (excerpt) / Arturo Carrera -- Physical portrait ; The Earth listening to us ; London Khipu ; Instan (excerpt) / Cecilia Vicuņa -- Mar paraguayo (excerpt) / Wilson Bueno -- Tuyu ; Mme. Schoklender / Nestor Perlongher -- Radio Sandino (excerpt) / Daisy Zamora -- Inri (excerpt) ; Neither fear nor sadness (desert writing) ; My God is hunger (sky writing) / Raul Zurita -- Water's lubricious edges ; Its dark force curving ; Give me, Earth, your night / Coral Bracho -- The flag of Chile (excerpt) / Elvira Hernandez -- Twilight's idol / Reina Maria Rodriguez -- Miss Murkiness (excerpt) / Emeterrio Cerro -- Shock of the lenders (excerpt) / Jorge Santiago Perednik -- Stones ; Advice ; Effort ; Navel ; Fireflies ; Walker ; Learning ; Buzzard / Humberto Ak'abal -- I still want to dream in this valley ; For I am the power of the nameless / Elikura Chihuailaf -- Black ivory (excerpt) / Myriam Moscona -- A sound of ancient, faded flows ; Traces ; The Grail / Josely Vianna Baptista -- Prayer so my man won't have to cross the line / Xunka' Utz'utz' Ni' -- Pexi Kola magic / Loxa Jimenes Lopes -- The talking box speaks / Maria Ernandes Kokov -- Dance of the perfumed woman / Tonik Nibak -- Third World (excerpt) / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- Cantares / Juan Gregorio Regino -- List of translators -- Source acknowledgments.
Subject Latin American poetry.
Latin American poetry -- Translations into English.
Added Author Vicuņa, Cecilia.
Livon-Grosman, Ernesto.
ISBN 9780195124545 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0195124545 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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