Reversible monuments : contemporary Mexican poetry / edited by Mónica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Torre, Mónica de la.

Wiegers, Michael.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexican poetry--20th century.

Mexican poetry.

Mexican poetry--20th century--Translations into English.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 675 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English translations with original Spanish language texts.

Summary:

Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the first generation of Mexican poets to hold in common an international perspective. Unlike anthologies offering only one or two poems by each author, Reversible Monuments affords its poets space enough to present larger-than-usual selections, allowing readers to more fully realize the individual voices. The translations, by both distinguished translators and brilliant new practitioners, are concise and transparent, and most are published here for the first time. In addition, several indigenous poets who write in Zapotec, Tzeltal, and Mazatec are presented tri-lingually.

Contents:

Maria Baranda

Epistle of the Shipwreck 17

The weddings of flowers take place upon the stigma. Pollen unfastens when aurora begins, and in a moment life redeems itself and then withdraws 29

With only two or three stamens, masculine flowers burst. They rise from their own depths, glistening and moist. Loosely turning over, they bring themselves up under the sky midway between light and shadow. Voiceless they wilt, sluggish they die 31

Ecstasy 33

Efrain Bartolome

Tattoos in the Water 39

Intermezzo with Five Crocodiles 45

The Ill-fated Water 47

Alberto Blanco

Theory of Light 53

Quantum Theory 55

Set Theory 57

Theory of Fractals 59

The Accuracy of the Scale 59

Metamorphosis of a Chair 69

Three States and Three Kingdoms 73

Carmen Boullosa

Elysian Garden 83

Coral Bracho

In This Warm Dark Mosque 109

Fish of Fleeting Skin 113

From This Light 119

A Stone in the Water of Sanity 121

Upon It They Gently Reflect 123

The Hypothetical Spectator 123

Stone in the Sand 127

The Mysteries of Touch 127

The Allure of Forms 129

Buffalo Conde

Flower of Gold 131

Time for Trees to Dance 131

Give Away the Lie 133

Elsa Cross

Monsoon 135

Ivy 137

Mandap 139

Seva 143

Fabulation 145

Banyan 147

Pavilion 147

Words 149

Form 151

Epiphany 151

Balancing Act 153

Shakti 153

Alfonso D'Aquino

Hotel 159

Amorous 161

The Wedding 163

Metempsychosis of the Dog 165

"The sun opens its lips and says to us" 167

The Opened Orange of Light 167

Brief Viper 179

Antonio Deltoro

Cartography 191

Eggs Laid by a Tiger 193

Sunday 195

Anesthesia 195

Voyage 197

Pillows 199

Contemporaries 199

Secondhand Book 201

Neighbors 201

The Shy Ones 203

Gerardo Deniz

Muse 207

Meditate 209

Ignorance 209

The Authoritarian School and How a Respectable Literary Genre Was Born 211

Auditor 213

Christmas 215

Childish 217

Classified Ads 217

Merlin 219

Ark 219

Act 221

Oedipus to the Third Power 223

Superior 227

Jorge Fernandez Granados

Minimal Ulysses 229

The Perfumist 233

Specters 237

The Promised Land 241

Account of the Marvels Whispered in a Mannequin's Ear 243

Malva Flores

Nomad House (excerpts) 251

Turbid Diction (excerpts) 261

Gloria Gervitz

Migrations (excerpt) 263

Francisco Hernandez

On How Robert Schumann Was Defeated by Demons 281

Claudia Hernandez de Valle-Arizpe

Hemicranea (excerpts) 305

David Huerta

Thirteen Propositions against Trivial Love 317

Machinery 323

Prayer for August 21 325

Pathological Beings 329

Bolero at Armageddon 329

Summer Mist 331

The Cauldron 331

Cancellation of a Construction Project 335

Descent 335

A Baroque Cell 337

Light from Parallel Worlds 339

Deck of Cards 341

Pura Lopez Colome

Dramatis Personae 343

Heartache 345

The Cubs 345

Death of the Kiss 351

Tedi Lopez Mills

And Never Did... 365

My Voice Faithful as a Shadow 369

The Dead Weight of the Land 371

An Ending by Pound 373

On Reading Virgil 375

Letter 381

Advertisement 387

Ernesto Lumbreras

"The sky" (1) 391

Overflowing Willow 393

Reunion of Cellos 393

Good-for-nothings on a White Corner 395

Keys of the Saint 395

A Green Hill, a Green Hill 397

The Horizon Burns 397

Regression of the Willow 397

Where to? 401

"The sky" (11) 403

Eduardo Milan

"I mean you as though referring to two furies because" 413

"Rabbit-foot effectiveness, nonentity of" 413

"Now that we're nothing, for example" 415

"I believe in nothing, I collaborate, I assist" 415

"Riddle me what marionettes are" 417

"I let myself be led because I let loose" 417

Five (excerpt) 419

"We can't go on like this: be truthful, empty" 421

"Do you care to remedy the faces of the gods?" 423

"One's alone in this: making masks" 423

"He sends word for them not to be in His place" 425

"What chorus?" 425

Fabio Morabito

Sponge 429

Scissors 433

Piazza Gimma 439

"I do not wish, in spite of all" 439

"I've forgotten the words" 441

"Elephants are born old" 443

"Maps are drawn on Sundays" 445

"I've never been in love enough" 449

"Compared to the condos of the living" 451

Josue Ramirez

Tepozan 457

Topography 463

Mechanical Heart 463

Of Fiction and Things 473

Juan Gregorio Regino

Cantares 479

Jose Luis Rivas

Red Tide 501

Thalassa 503

A Season of Paradise 507

A Knack for Slipping Away 517

River I 519

Francisco Segovia

Evening Star 527

Premonition 531

Chrysalis 531

There Where You Sleep... 533

Promise 535

We Never Come 537

It Isn't Gentleness 537

Vegetal Animus 537

Clarity of Silence 541

Pedro Serrano

Pool 543

Bullfight 543

Vertigo 545

Rosary 545

Inventory 547

Ticklish Moments 549

Boundary 549

Flying 553

Beacon 553

Treadmill 555

Victor Teran

It Was Early Evening 559

In the Palm of My Hand 561

Indecision 561

Six Variations on Love 563

It's Over 565

Natalia Toledo

Na Tacha 569

Zenaida 569

Olga's House 571

Temple 571

Silly Ghost 573

Na Aurea 573

Marcelina 575

Na Hermila Limon 575

Cielo Min 577

Revelation 577

Agricola 579

Bertha Beninu 579

Na Victorica Litru 581

Healers 581

Natalia 583

The Shadow That Draws the Light 583

Manuel Ulacia

On the Beach 585

Hampstead Heath 585

Return to the City 587

Conrail Wax Museum 587

In the Steam Bath 589

Aegean Sea 589

Visit to Turk's Head Pub 593

In the Ritz at Meknes 595

Arabian Knight 597

Tenochtitlan Blues 599

Veronica Volkow

Arcana IV: The Emperor 601

Arcana VIII: Justice 603

Arcana X: Fortune 605

Arcana XII: The Hanged Man 605

The Story of the Labyrinth 607

Wands 609

The Valley of Zapata 611

Heriberto Yepez

"Maniacs and Crazies" 615

On Coahuila Street 621

The Life of a Cucapa Woman 625

On the "Unusual" Lifestyle of the Cucapa Indians as Recorded by R. W. Hardy, British Lieutenant, While Exploring the Gulf of California 627

Juan Martinez, Juan Nobody, Juan All 629.

Notes:

"A Kage-an book."

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

1556591594

OCLC:

49648433