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A stab in the dark / Facundo Bernal ; translated by Anthony Seidman ; foreword by Yxta Maya Murray ; introductions by Josh Kun and Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz ; edited by Boris Dralyuk.
Van Pelt Library PQ7297.B37 P34 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernal, Facundo, 1883-1962, author.
- Series:
- LARB classics.
- LARB classics
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Bernal, Facundo, 1883-1962--Translations into English.
- Bernal, Facundo.
- Bernal, Facundo, 1883-1962.
- Mexican poetry--20th century.
- Mexican poetry.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 272 pages : 1 portrait ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : The Los Angeles Review of Books, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish, translated from the original Spanish.
- Summary:
- Facundo Bernal's A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community in Los Angeles and in the burgeoning border town of Mexicali during the early 1920s. Sharply satirical yet deeply empathetic, Bernal's poems are both a landmark of Chicano literature and a captivating read. Anthony Seidman's energetic translation the first into English preserves the prickly feel of Bernal's classic, down to the last stab. This edition also features the original Spanish text, an introduction by the prominent Mexicali writer Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, an additional introduction by critic Josh Kun, and a foreword by writer and lawyer Yxta Maya Murray -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- "For the Raza, for the Homeland, and for Art": a foreword by Yxta Maya Murray
- "Defending what's rightly ours": an introduction to Facundo Bernal's 'forgotten masterpiece of Los Angeles literature by John Kun
- Facundo Bernal López: an introduction by Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz
- A stab in the dark
- Palos de ciego.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Container of: Bernal, Facundo, 1883-1962. Palos de ciego.
- Container of: Bernal, Facundo, 1883-1962. Palos de ciego. English.
- ISBN:
- 9781940660394
- 1940660394
- OCLC:
- 1064062359
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