The blinding star : selected poems / by Blanca Varela ; translated by Lisa Allen Ortiz and Sara Daniele Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varela, Blanca, author.

Contributor:

Ortiz, Lisa Allen, translator.

Rivera, Sara Daniele, translator.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish poetry--Translations into English.

Spanish poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 165 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Flagstaff, Arizona : Tolsun Books, [2021]

Summary:

"The Blinding Star collects selected new translations of poems by the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela and includes two of her most experimental works in their entirety: The Book of Clay and Animal Concert. Although Varela has been categorized as a surrealist, this collection reframes her work as existentially feminist. There is nothing arbitrary in Varela's serrated language and carnal obsessions. She is telling the story of a woman's liminal being--her body as both a vessel of expectations and a vast unmapped interior. Octavio Paz described Varela's work as "Both the wound and the knife," and this collection emphasizes the duality of her poetry. These poems journey inward through dark gardens to expose the wound of grief and outward again with sharp clarity. Blanca Varela is a singular artist, furiously searching for fragments of brightness in the merciless landscape of her own mind."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781948800440

1948800446

OCLC:

1263265221

Publisher Number:

99988705495