Fungus skull eye wing : selected poems of Alfonso D'Aquino / translated by Forrest Gander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aquino, Alfonso D'.

Contributor:

Gander, Forrest, 1956- translator.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Aquino, Alfonso D'--Translations into English.

Aquino, Alfonso D'.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 75 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2013]

Language Note:

Parallel text in Spanish and English.

Summary:

"Fungus skull eye wing is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the 'rational,' perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition. Alfonso D'Aquino is an editor, poetry instructor, snake handler, and author of six books. He was born in Mexico City in 1959 and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His poetry is included in the landmark anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A note on Alfonso D'Aquino

Acanthus: b / shadow

Frond

Networks

The wolf's dream / intaglio

Black bee

Vertical fish / graffiti

13

Spores

Digitaria exilis

Zagreus

Written on a grain of salt

(Green fluorite)

Acanthus: a /net

Citron's bitterness

Its verb's forked tongue

[Knot].

Contains:

Aquino, Alfonso D'. Poems. Selections

Aquino, Alfonso D'. Poems. Selections. English

ISBN:

9781556594472

155659447X

OCLC:

833301265