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The return of the river : the selected poems of Roberto Sosa / translated by Jo Anne Engelbert.
Van Pelt Library PQ7509.2.S6 A6 2002
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sosa, Roberto, 1930-2011.
- Standardized Title:
- Retorno del río. English & Spanish
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 263 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English translation with Spanish original.
- Summary:
- Return of the River" presents a wide selection of Roberto Sosa's poetry in superb translations by JoAnne Engelbert.
- Sosa's voice...is never ornate or emotionally explosive; it is controlled, reflective, and measured. Nevertheless, it is intensely emotional and pregnant with feeling, a feeling that is seductive and operates in the manner of an undertow."-"San Francisco Chronicle"
- Born in Yoro, Honduras in 1930 into a poor family, Roberto Sosa had to struggle hard to gain an education and didn't publish his first book until he was nearly thirty. After he won the Adonais Prize (1969) and" "the Casa de las Americas Prize (1971), critics recognized him as a major talent.
- Marketing Plans:
- o Author readings in St. Augustine, New York, DC, Hartford, Amherst.
- JoAnne Engelbert is Professor Emeritus at Montclair State College and currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida.
- Also by Roberto Sosa "The Common Grief" PB $11.95, 1-880684-23-3 b?" CUSA
- Contents:
- Caligramas/Calligrams
- Tegucigalpa 4
- Tegucigalpa 5
- Submarina 6
- Under the Sea 7
- Muros/Walls
- Autobiografia 10
- Autobiography 11
- Sin nombre 12
- Nameless 13
- Los estibadores 14
- The Stevedores 15
- Imagenes 16
- Images 17
- Los perros 18
- Dogs 19
- Cruz del alba 20
- Dawn Cross 21
- Elegia simple 26
- Simple Elegy 27
- Tempestad 28
- Storm 29
- Viejo pueblo 30
- Old Town 31
- Amapala 32
- Amapala 33
- Espejos 34
- Mirrors 35
- Mar Interior / The Sea Within
- Estatuaria 40
- Statuary 41
- Juego de ninos 42
- Lullaby 43
- La orilla 44
- The Shore 45
- El viento 46
- The Wind 47
- Naufragio 48
- Shipwreck 49
- Alta mar 50
- High Sea 51
- Lago deshabitado 52
- Deserted Lake 53
- Palabras para una nina que se quedo dormida 54
- Words for a Little Girl Who Fell Asleep 55
- Los Retornos 58
- I Must Return 59
- Los Pobres / The Poor
- De nino a hombre 64
- From Child to Adult 65
- Los claustros 66
- Chambers 67
- Los tuneles blancos que conducen al mar 68
- The White Tunnels that Lead to the Sea 69
- Si el frio fuera una casa con heno, nino y misterio 70
- If Cold Were a House with Hay, a Child and Mystery 71
- Los peldanos que faltan 72
- The Steps Remaining 73
- La casa de la justicia 74
- The House of Justice 75
- La ciudad de los ninos mendigos 76
- The City of Beggar Children 77
- La realidad 78
- Reality 79
- El otro oceano 80
- The Other Ocean 81
- La igualdad 82
- Equality 83
- Las voces no escuchadas de los ricos 84
- The Unheeded Voices of the Rich 85
- Los indios 86
- The Indians 87
- Mi padre 90
- My Father 91
- Piano vacio 104
- Empty Piano 105
- Un Mundo Para Todos Dividido / A World for All, Divided
- Esta luz que suscribo 108
- This Light by which I Write 109
- Arte espacial 110
- Spatial Art 111
- La arena del desierto que comparto con otros 112
- The Desert Sand I Share with Others 113
- Proximidad 114
- Proximity 115
- La batalla oscura 116
- The Dark Battle 117
- Cancion para un gato muerto 118
- Song for a Dead Cat 119
- Dibujo a pulso 120
- Freehand Sketch 121
- Los elegidos de la violencia 122
- The Chosen Ones 123
- La muerte otra 124
- That Other Death 125
- La hora baja 126
- Qualms 127
- El aire que nos queda 130
- The Air We Have Left 131
- La yerba cortada por los campesinos 132
- The Grass the Peasants Cut 133
- Malignos bailarines sin cabeza 136
- Wicked Headless Dancers 137
- Las sales enigmaticas 138
- The Enigmatic Salts 139
- El vertice mas alto 140
- The Apex 141
- Los dias dificiles 144
- The Difficult Days 145
- Descripcion de una ciudad en peligro 148
- Description of a City in Danger 149
- Un anormal volumen de lluvia 152
- An Abnormal Quantity of Rain 153
- Secreto Militar / Military Secret
- Secreto militar 158
- Military Secret 159
- Tiburcio Carias, el hombre 160
- Tiburcio Carias, the Man 161
- Stroessner 162
- Monsieur Duvalier 164
- La fiera alucinada 166
- The Hallucinating Beast 167
- La cuadratura del rostro 170
- The Squaring of the Face 171
- Pinochet en la balanza de pagos 172
- Pinochet in the Balance of Payments 173
- La persecucion de los mastines 174
- The Persecution of the Mastiffs 175
- Fue en el ano 32. Y no hay olvido 176
- It Happened in '32. And There's No Forgetting 177
- Guatemala, el pais de la eterna primavera 178
- Guatemala, Land of Eternal Spring 179
- Caen en el vacio dos palabras mayores 180
- Two Major Words Fall into the Void 181
- La voz del pueblo 184
- The Voice of the People 185
- Urgente 186
- Urgent 187
- Mascara Suelta / the Lifted Mask
- La desconocida 190
- She 191
- La estacion y el pacto 192
- The Station and the Pact 193
- De la bruma hice vino 194
- From the Mist I Made Wine 195
- Asi de sencillo 196
- Simple 197
- Mascara suelta 198
- The Lifted Mask 199
- Sobre el agua 200
- Upon the Water 201
- El cisne negro 202
- The Black Swan 203
- En este parque, solo 204
- In This Park, Alone 205
- El mas antiguo de los nombres del fuego 206
- The Most Ancient of the Names of Fire 207
- El regreso del rio 208
- The Return of the River 209
- La fuente iluminada 210
- The Illuminated Fountain 211
- La sal dulce de la palabra poesia 212
- Sweet Salt of the Word Poetry 213
- El Llanto de Las Cosas / the Weeping of Things
- Recuerdos numero 1-2 216
- Memories Numbers 1-2 217
- El pequenin 218
- The Child 219
- El llanto de las cosas 220
- The Weeping of Things 221
- El viejo Pontiac 222
- The Old Pontiac 223
- Los sucesos de aquel puerto 224
- The Events in That Port 225
- Llama del bosque 226
- Flame Tree 227
- Una gaviota 228
- A Seagull 229
- Bajo un arbol 232
- Under a Tree 233
- La puerta unica 234
- The Only Door 235
- Cansancio 236
- Weariness 237
- Los pesares juntos 238
- The Common Grief 239
- Las Voces Que Tu No Oyes / Voices You Do Not Hear
- Belleza perfecta 242
- Perfect Beauty 243
- Adios marino 244
- Day Was Dawning 245
- Vespertina 246
- Evensong 247
- Imagen de la lluvia 248
- Image of the Rain 249
- Nina de niebla 250
- Mist Woman 251
- Las voces que tu no oyes 254
- Voices You Do Not Hear 255
- Soneto de la nostalgia 256
- Nostalgia 257
- Muerte de la rosa 258
- Death of the Rose 259
- El silencio de las sirenas 260
- Silence of the Sirens 261
- Copan 262.
- ISBN:
- 1880684802
- OCLC:
- 47224653
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