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Autoepitaph : Selected Poems / Reinaldo Arenas ; edited by Camelly Cruz-Martes, translated by Kelly Washbourne.
Van Pelt Library PQ7390.A72 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems Selections English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990--Translations into English.
- Arenas, Reinaldo.
- Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.
- Cuban poetry--Translations into English.
- Cuban poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 363 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014.
- Summary:
- Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) remains one of the most famous Cuban writers in exile. His work constitutes a monument of resistance literature, but much of the focus has been on his novels and his autobiography, Before Night Falls, chosen as one of the ten best books of 1993 by the New York Times. Because his poetic Output has not been widely translated, Autoepitaph is the first and only career spanning volume of Arenas's poetry in translation in any language. This bilingual volume includes narrative poems, sonnets, excerpts from Arenas's prose poems and previously unpublished works from his papers at Princeton University. Both the Spanish originals and English translations seamlessly capture the poet's sarcasm, humor, and powerful rhythms. Camelly Cruz-Martes provides an outline for Arenas's major poetic strategies, as well as context for the themes that unite his poems: resistance against colonialism, political and personal repression, existential alienation, and the desire for transcendence through art. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I English
- Prayer [excerpt from El Color del verano] 47
- Slave Hands [excerpt from El Central] 48
- "Under the Trees" [excerpt from El Central] 52
- "Look How We Float" [excerpt from El Central] 56
- "At Night the Blacks" [excerpt from El Central] 58
- "Ah, But Do You Know...?" [excerpt from El Central] 62
- Only One, One Mind [excerpt from El Central] 63
- Mere Pretext for a Monotonous Discharge [excerpt from El Central] 66
- "Grande" Finale [excerpt from El Central] 67
- Introduction to the Symbol of Faith [excerpt from El Central] 70
- "If the Weather's Fine" [excerpt from Morir en junio y con la lengua afuera] 76
- "In the City, the Tourists" [excerpt from Morir en junio y con la lengua afuera] 82
- "Oh, God, You're Cold and Perplexed" [excerpt from Morir en junio y con la lengua afuera] 88
- "Tonight as I Crossed "[excerpt from Morir en junio y con la lengua afuera] 91
- "Like Shadows Fostered by the Very Light" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 93
- "I Have Seen, I Have Seen" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 96
- "But if He Still Resists" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 99
- "And When You're Not Around Anymore" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 103
- Consignment 108
- A Kind of Mire is Falling 109
- Not Yet Knowing He Was Dead 110
- Never Will I Understand How Death 111
- It is Not the Dead Man Who Causes Shock 112
- Between You and I Always Comes 113
- You and I Are Condemned 114
- The Rose is Painted Rose-Colored 115
- I Have Sought You in the Age-Old Night 116
- The Hand of Hell Resembles 117
- Everything That Could Be, Though It Came to Pass 118
- Procession 119
- Epigram 121
- When He Found Out 122
- My Lover the Sea 123
- Those Splendid Goddesses 137
- Who Will Remember Our Dead Gestures? 139
- Reward 140
- The Will to Live Manifesting Itself 141
- No One Should be Alarmed if This Afternoon 142
- First Moon 143
- Moon II 144
- "Those Rivers on Which" [fragment] 145
- "Oh Sole Mio" 146
- If Tour Name Were Nelson (To a Young American) 148
- Thinking" 152
- Dracula Loses His Cold Blood 154
- As Long as the Heavens Go Round 156
- Sea 159
- I Have Two Homelands: Cuba and the Night 161
- Voices 162
- Old Child 163
- White Little Shit 165
- Final Moon 166
- Autumn Gives Me a Leaf 168
- Autoepitaph 170
- "Summer" [excerpt from El mundo alucinante] 172
- Impossible Dreams [excerpt from El color del verano] 174
- Interludes [excerpt from Otra vez El mar] 176
- Second Canto [excerpt from Otra vez El mar] 180
- The Parade Ends 188
- "We Are the Flies" [excerpt from "Adió's a mamá"] 190
- Prologue to the Song of the Sands 197
- Iliad 199
- "The Poet" [excerpt from Persecución (Act5)] 201
- Part II Spanish
- Oración [excerpt from El color del verano] 207
- Manos esclavas [excerpt from El Central] 208
- "Bajo Los árboles" [excerpt from El Central] 212
- "Mira cómo flotamos" [excerpt from El Central] 216
- "De noche los negros" [excerpt from El Central] 218
- "Ah, pero conoce usted" [excerpt from El Central] 222
- Únicamente, única mente" [excerpt from El Central] 223
- Pequeño pretexto para una monótona descarga [excerpt from El Central] 226
- "Grandioso" finale [excerpt from El Central] 227
- Introducción del Simbolo de la fe [excerpt from El Central] 230
- "Si hace buen tiempo" [excerpt from Morir en junio y can la lengua afuera] 236
- "En la ciudad los turistas" [excerpt from Morir en junio y con la lengua afuera] 242
- "Oh, dios, estás frío frío y perplejo" [excerpt from Morir en junio y can la lengua afuera] 248
- "Esta noche al pasar" [excerpt from Morir en junio y can la lengua afuera] 251
- "Como sombras que la misma claridad auspicia" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 253
- "Yo he visto, yo he visto" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 256
- "Mas si aún resiste" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 259
- "Y cuando tú ya no estés" [excerpt from Leprosorio] 263
- Envío 268
- Una especie de fango está cayendo 269
- No sabiendo aún que estaba muerto 270
- Jamas podré explicarme que la muerte 271
- No es el muerto quien provoca el estupor 272
- Entre tú y yo siempre se opone 273
- Tú y yo estamos condenados 274
- La rosa está Pintada de rosado 275
- Te he buscado en la noche milenaria 276
- La mano del Infierno se parece 227
- Todo lo que pudo ser, aunque haya sido 278
- Desfile 279
- Epigrama 281
- Cuando le dijeron 282
- Mi amante el mar 283
- Esas espléndidas diosas 297
- ¿Quién recorderá nuestros gestros muertos? 299
- Premio 300
- Voluntad de vivir manifestándose 301
- Nadie se habrá de alarmar si en esta tarde 302
- Primera luna 303
- Luna II 304
- "Esos ríos sobre los cuales" [fragment] 305
- Oh Sole Mio 306
- Si te llamaras Nelson(a un joven norteamericano) 308
- ¿Pensar? 312
- Dracula Loses His Cold Blood 314
- Mientras el cielo gire 316
- Mar 319
- Dos patrias tengo yo: cupa y la noche 321
- Voces 322
- Viejo niño 323
- Blanco mojoncito 325
- Última luna 326
- El otoño me regala una hoja 328
- Autoepitafio 330
- "El verano" [excerpt from El mundo alucinante] 332
- Sueños imposibles [excerpt from El color del verano] 334
- Entremeses [excerpt from Otra vez mar] 336
- Canto Segundo [excerpt from Otra vez mar] 340
- Termina el desfile 348
- "Somos las moscas" [excerpt from "Adiós a mamá"] 350
- Prólogo al canto de las arenas 357
- Iliada 359
- "El poeta" [excerpt from Persecución (Act5)] 361.
- ISBN:
- 9780813049731
- 0813049733
- OCLC:
- 861209598
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