Poemas de amor / Love Poems
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Pitt Poetry Series
ISBN-10
0822966255
ISBN-13
9780822966258
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 2020
Print length
120 Pages
Weight
200 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 20.20 x 1.30 cms
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Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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Poemas del Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love.
Longlist, 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas del Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of ?45?which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale?Vilariño is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets.
Vilariño and Onetti?s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas del Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions.
THE WITNESS
I don?t ask you for anything
don?t accept anything from you.
It?s enough that you are
in the world
that you know I am
in the world
that you might be
To me, you might be
witness judge and god.
If not
what is it for.
Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas del Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of ?45?which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale?Vilariño is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets.
Vilariño and Onetti?s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas del Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions.
THE WITNESS
I don?t ask you for anything
don?t accept anything from you.
It?s enough that you are
in the world
that you know I am
in the world
that you might be
To me, you might be
witness judge and god.
If not
what is it for.
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