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Selected poems = poesía selecta / Luis Palés Matos ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction by, Julio Marzán.
Van Pelt Library PQ7439.P24 A26 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palés Matos, Luis.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English & Spanish
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Palés Matos, Luis--Translations into English.
- Palés Matos, Luis.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 141 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Poesía selecta
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, [2000]
- Language Note:
- Text in English. Poems appear in both English and Spanish.
- Summary:
- A bilingual edition of a leading Caribbean poet in a vivid new translation. Although today Luis Pales Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America."
- Pales Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbean's leading advocates of poesia negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntun de Pasa y Griferia: Poesia Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poetry) joyously celebrated the African aspects and sources of Puerto Rico's culture and influenced later generations of writers throughout the Western hemisphere.
- Translator Julio Marzan has selected the best of Pales Matos' poems from throughout his career, among them "Prelude in Boricua," "Danza Negra," "Buccaneer Winds," and "Elegy on the Duke of Marmalade." He also provides a helpful glossary of obscure terms and an introduction that locates Pales Matos in the broader cultural context of his contemporaries and poetic influences, including such North American poets as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vachel Lindsay.
- Contents:
- Introduction: In the Mingling Grain viii
- Part I (1920-1925)
- Claro de Luna 2
- Moonlight 3
- El Pozo 4
- The Well 5
- El Dolor Desconocido 6
- The Unknown Sorrow 7
- Topografia 8
- Topography 9
- de Los Animales Interiores 12
- from The Animals Within 13
- Pueblo 14
- Town 15
- Nocturno 16
- Nocturne 17
- Part II (1926-1937)
- Preludio en Boricua 20
- Prelude in Boricua 21
- Cancion Festiva para Ser Llorada 24
- Festive Song to Be Wept 25
- Nanigo al Cielo 34
- Nanigo to Heaven 35
- Numen 42
- Numen 43
- Pueblo Negro 46
- Black Town 47
- Candombe 50
- Candombe 51
- Bombo 54
- Bombo 55
- Majestad Negra 58
- Black Majesty 59
- Danza Negra 60
- Black Dance 61
- Kalahari 64
- Kalahari 65
- Elegia del Duque de la Mermalada 68
- Elegy on the Duke of Marmelade 69
- Ten con Ten 70
- Not This, Not That 71
- El Gallo 74
- The Gamecock 75
- de Intermedios del Hombre Blanco Islas 76
- from White Man's Interludes Islands 77
- de Intermedios del Hombre Blanco Tambores 78
- from White Man's Interludes Drums 79
- Mulata-Antilla 82
- Mulatta-Antille 83
- Part III (1938-1944)
- El Menu 90
- Menu 91
- Aires Bucaneros 96
- Buccaneer Winds 97
- Cancion de Mar 106
- Sea Song 107
- Part IV (1944-1959)
- Plena del Menealo 114
- Shake It Plena 115
- Bocetos Impresionistas 120
- Impressionist Sketches 121
- Puerta al Tiempo en Tres Voces 126
- Entrance to Time in Three Voices 127
- La Busqueda Asesina (Poema Inconcluso) 132
- The Killer Pursuit (Inconclusive Poem) 133
- El Llamado 136
- The Call 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1558853030
- OCLC:
- 44516668
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