Unthinkable tenderness : selected poems / Juan Gelman ; edited and translated by Joan Lindgren ; with a foreword by Eduardo Galeano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelman, Juan, 1930-2014.

Contributor:

Lindgren, Joan.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Gelman, Juan, 1930-2014--Translations into English.

Gelman, Juan.

Gelman, Juan, 1930-2014.

Physical Description:

xix, 191 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

Summary:

Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership. Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were "disappeared"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss. "remembering their little bones when it rains/ the compañ erosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces"--from "Remembering Their Little Bones"

ISBN:

0520205863

0520205871

OCLC:

35714795