Territory of dawn : the selected poems of Eunice Odio / Eunice Odio ; translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas & Mauricio Espinoza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odio, Eunice, author.

Contributor:

Ekiss, Keith, translator.

Ticas, Sonia P., 1969- translator.

Espinoza, Mauricio, 1975- translator.

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

113 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, New York : Bitter Oleander Press, 2016.

Language Note:

Poems in Spanish with English translations on facing pages; editorial matter in English.

Summary:

Travelers to Costa Rica often depart the capital of San José as soon as they arrive, heading out for the cloud forest of Monteverde, the volcano at Arenal, or the waves at Playa Tamarindo, leaving behind the smell of diesel fumes and the city's concrete architecture. But if von visit the National Theater, a civic treasure modeled on the Paris Opera, you will find a bronze statue guarding the building, the bust of a woman with a fierce, penetrating gaze, and hair of Medusa-like serpents: the mother of Costa Rican verse and the country's most significant international literary presence, Nuestra Eunice, as she's been called, the poet Eunice Odio. Eunice Odio's poetry has thus remained almost wholly unknown to readers outside Latin America, obscured on the margins of the region's avant-garde and proletarian-poet traditions. A woman poet who lived a secluded life, Odio was born in a country with, at the time, an antipathy to artists and writers, who often relocated to Mexico City if they wanted to establish themselves as contributors to the vanguard. Odio herself was aware of her marginalized, self-exiled position, Octavio Paz once told her chat she was "of that line of poets who invent their own mythology, like Blake, like St. John Perse, like Ezra Pound; and they are rubbed out, because no one understands them until years or even centuries after their death." Book jacket.

Contents:

Carta a Carlos Pellicer 16

Letter to Carlos Pellicer 17

Sinfonia pequeña 18

Petite Symphony 19

Corazón con parque y niños 20

Heart with Park and Children 21

Lin lan, cantaba la alondra 22

Lin Lan, Sang the Lark 23

Ties canciones de soledad 24

Three Songs of Solitude 25

Recuerdo de mi infancia privada 28

Memory of My Private Childhood 29

Declinaciones del monólogo 32

Declensions of the Monologue 33

Si pudiera abrir mi gruesa flor 36

If I Could Open My Thick Flower 37

La class de matemáticas 40

Math Class 41

Suite de la bailarina iluminada 44

Suite of the Illuminated Ballerina 45

Recepción a un amigo a su llegada a Panamá 50

Reception for a Friend on His Arrival in Panama 51

A Natalia, la niña del pintor Granell 52

To Natalia, the Daughter of the Painter Granell 53

Posesión en el sueño 58

Dream Possession 59

Ausenda de amor 62

Absence of Love 63

Consumación 68

Consummation 69

Canción del esposo a su amada 72

The Husband Sings to His Love 73

Pregunté a las mujeres del campo 76

I Asked the Women of the Field 77

Prólogo del tiempo que no está en sí 84

Prologue to a time without place 85

Retratos del corazón 92

Portraits of the Heart 93

La dama de bronce 98

The Bronze Lady 99

Este el el bosque 104

This is the Forest 105

Oda al Hudson 110

Ode to the Hudson 111.

Contains:

Contains: Odio, Eunice. Poems. Selections.

Contains: Odio, Eunice. Poems. Selections. English.

ISBN:

9780986204937

0986204935

OCLC:

947816182

Publisher Number:

99971566819