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Seven trees against the dying light : a bilingual edition / Pablo Antonio Cuadra ; translated from the Spanish by Greg Simon and Steven F. White.
Van Pelt Library PQ7519.C8 S5413 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuadra, Pablo Antonio, 1912-2002.
- Series:
- AGM collection
- Standardized Title:
- Siete arboles contra el atardecer. English & Spanish
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Cuadra, Pablo Antonio, 1912-2002--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cuadra, Pablo Antonio.
- Cuadra, Pablo Antonio, 1912-2002.
- Trees--Poetry.
- Trees.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 85 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Bilingual edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- Poems in Spanish and facing English translation; commentary in English.
- Summary:
- Standing against the visible landscape--the mountainous volcanoes, the jungles and savannahs--the seven trees conjured in these narrative poems by one of Latin America's masters also evoke another, more mysterious terrain. It is this other landscape, as invisible as poetry before it is written down but etched by history and animated by the collective memory of a people, that speaks through Pablo Antonio Cuadra's Seven Trees against the Dying Light . Storing experience as they exist, these tree-poems conserve local soil and memory in the place they inhabit. They are figures of life, stained by seawater and gun powder, by the bright red, bittersweet juice of the many life-giving plums that flourish in Nicaragua, and blood that has been spilled there. And they offer a way of remembering who we are, where we come from, and, above all, where we are bound if we cannot learn to root language in the earth that sustains us. Printed here in Spanish with facing English translations, the edition includes an introduction with ecocritical focus, as well as complete notes on botanical, historical, mythological, and socio-political references.
- Contents:
- La ceiba = The ceiba tree
- El jocote = The jocote tree
- El panamá = The panama tree
- El cacao = The cacao tree
- El mango = The mango tree
- El jenísero = The jenísero tree
- El jícaro = The jícaro tree.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Spanish under the title Siete arboles contra el atardecer. Copyright 1987 by Libro Libre."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85).
- ISBN:
- 9780810124745
- 0810124742
- 9780810124738
- 0810124734
- OCLC:
- 154677064
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