Immanent visitor : selected poems of Jaime Saenz / translated from the Spanish by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sáenz, Jaime.

Contributor:

Johnson, Kent.

Gander, Forrest, 1956-

Standardized Title:

Visitante profundo. English & Spanish

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bolivian poetry.

Bolivian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

Bilingual ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, a denizen of slum taverns, unashamedly bisexual, insistently nocturnal in his artistic affairs, and secretive in his leadership of a select group of writers, Saenz mixed the mystical and baroque with the fantastic, the psychological, and the symbolic. In masterly translations by two poet-translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander, Saenz's strange, innovative, and wildly lyrical poems reveal a literary legacy of fierce compassion and solidarity with indigenous Bolivian cultures and with the destitute, the desperate, and the disenfranchised of that unreal city, La Paz.In long lines, in odes that name desire, with Whitmanesque anaphora, in exclamations and repetitions, Saenz addresses the reader, the beloved, and death in one extended lyrical gesture. The poems are brazenly affecting. Their semantic innovation is notable in the odd heterogeneity of formal and tonal structures that careen unabashedly between modes and moods; now archly lyrical, now arcanely symbolic, now colloquial, now trancelike. As Saenz's reputation continues to grow throughout the world, these inspired translations and the accompanying Spanish texts faithfully convey the poet's unique vision and voice to English-speaking readers.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

By Way of Introduction

A Note on This Translation

Poem in Translation

Poems in the Original Spanish

The Saenz Effect: An Afterword by Leonardo García-Pabón

Notes:

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ISBN:

9786612359521

9781282359529

1282359525

9780520936027

0520936027

9781597346702

1597346705

OCLC:

475927380