Footwork : selected poems / Severo Sarduy ; translated from Spanish by David Francis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarduy, Severo, author.

Contributor:

Francis, David, translator.

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Circumference Books, [2021]

Language Note:

English and Spanish.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Flamenco

"Stucco polygons"

"The pages covered in gold letters"

"Water weds to windows"

"The piercing chorus"

"white walls"

"like a black stone"

Fandangos

Tientos

Sevillanas

Tanguillo

Seguidillas

Alegrias

Zapateado

Farruca

Mineras

Bulerias

Mood Indigo

Magenta Haze

The Mooche

Blue Reverie

Sophisticated Lady

Moon Mist

Echoes of Harlem

Golden Feathers

Tonk

Black Spiral

Big Bang

I. Big Bang

II. Big Bang

III. Isomorphism

IV. Black Hole

V. Crab

VI. Fossilized Light

XII. Heavenly Body

Other Poems

Havana Sextet

Blank Pages (Paintings by Franz Kline)

Carlo Crivelli's Peacock

Cubes by Larry Bell

Inter Femora

A Fleeting and Masked Witness Un testigo fugaz y disfrazado (1985)

"The transparent light at midday"

"The murmur of machines was growing"

"Not the voice preceded by the echo"

"Pull out of me more than what was left out"

"Entering you, head to head"

"Glittering, greased, the piston"

"Though you anointed the threshold"

"If it darkened, if it abandoned me"

"Let go, I know this well"

"Not the footstep of the god, but the footprint"

"The humid balconies overlooked"

Page from a Diary

"Now death has taken everything"

"Vanquished, the Powerful One flees"

Requesting the Canonization of Virgilio Pinera

To the Buddha of Chinatown

"Not by chance, for love of nonsense"

Morandi

Rothko

A Perennial and Betrayed Witness Un testigo perenne y delatado (1993)

Sonnets

Saint John of the Cross

Saint Teresa of Avila

Clarity

Allegory by Holbein

For the Tree of "La Recoleta"

Ornithomancy

"What night says to day"

"Red spilled over purple"

"Matta draws the invisible"

"Acrostic traitor: you don't restore"

May the Infinite be Starless

"You put a lace skirt on Medea"

To the Home of the Counts of Jaruco

Recounting

Portrait

"More than the dream, the accuracy"

Decimas

A Crown of Fruits

I. Cherimoya

II. Mango

III. Star Apple

IV. Pineapple

V. Papaya

VI. Cashew

VII. Loquat

VIII. Guanabana

IX. Mamey

X. Colophon

In Summer's Amber

Orishas

I. Olofi, Olodumare, Olorun

II. Elegua

III. Obatala

IV. Shango

V. Oshun

VI. The Ibejis

VII. Oya

VIII. Babalu-Aye

IX. Olokun

X. Yemoja

Other Decimas

From Phrases Spoken in Spanish by F. W

"I convince the more I deceive"

"This is what you are, time of grieving"

Last Poems/Uttimos poemas (1999)

One

"Enemy identical face"

"The gold in The Count of Orgaz"

Imitation of a Sonnet

To the Letters of the Alphabet

Two

Imitation

Three

Epitaphs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Sarduy, Severo. Poems. Selections.

Sarduy, Severo. Poems. Selections. English.

ISBN:

1949918025

9781949918021

OCLC:

1229126601

Publisher Number:

99988467401