Selected Translations : 2000-2020 / Ilan Stavans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stavans, Ilan, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 209 p..)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana Iňs de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, R?al Zurita, and dozens of others have become classics. This volume, which includes poems from more than forty poets from all over the world, is testimony to a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in different languages.

Contents:

Ode to Gratitude

Ode to Guatemala

Ode to the Inconsequential Day

Ode to Jean Arthur Rimbaud

Ode to the Month of August

Ode to the Moon

Ode to the Murmur

Ode to the Names of Venezuela

Ode to Night

Ode to Simplicity

Ode to Things

Ode to the Watermelon

Andres Neuman (Argentina / Spain)

Genesis, COVID-19

Antonia Palacios (Venezuela)

The Obscure Animal of Dream

Writings of Eviction

João Pinto Delgado (Portugal)

Leaving Egypt

Gonzalo Rojas (Chile)

Andre Breton Turns a Hundred and Is Fine

Elizabeth Schön (Venezuela)

Dulce María Loynáz (Cuba)

The Mirror

Love Is...

I Dream of Classifying...

Leopoldo Lugones (Argentina)

History of My Death

Juan Carlos Marset (Spain)

Embraceable

Jose Martí (Cuba)

Two Homelands

Kadya Molodowsky (Belarus)

God of Mercy

Eugenio Montejo (Venezuela)

Earthliness

Ithaca

Álvaro Mutis (Colombia)

Lament for the Death of Marcel Proust

Pablo Neruda (Chile)

Your Laughter

The Son

Ode to Age

Ode to the Andean Cordillera

Ode to Ángel Cruchaga

Ode to the Apple

Ode to the Flowers of Datitla

Ode to the Dictionary

Ferreira Gullar (Brazil)

Translating Oneself

Two Plus Two Is Four

Song to Avoid Death

Óscar Hahn (Chile)

Nude Descending a Staircase

In the Region of Water and Fire

Yehuda Halevi (Spain)

My Heart Is in the East

Jose Hernández (Argentina)

The Gaucho Martín Fierro, Part One, Canto 1, 1-19

Vicente Huidobro (Chile)

Globe-Trotter

Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz (Mexico)

Misguided Men

Stay, Shadow

Darío Jamarillo Agudelo (Colombia)

Love Poem 8

Vengeance

Besik Kharanauli (Georgia)

We Should Dig Out Potatoes

Juan Liscano (Venezuela)

Body of Love

María Calcaño (Venezuela)

Cosmos

Paul Celan (Germany)

Death Fugue

Luis Alberto Crespo (Venezuela)

Hurts

He Who I See in My Eyes Seeing Me

Ruben Darío (Nicaragua)

Lo fatal

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil)

International Congress of Fear

Federico García Lorca (Spain)

At a Young Woman's Ear

Ode to Walt Whitman

Juan Gelman (Argentina)

End

Epitaph

Dibaxu: I

Dibaxu: XII

Jacqueline Goldberg (Venezuela)

Poetics

Ida Gramcko (Venezuela)

Jewish Cemetery (Prague) (fragment)

Snail, Brother

León de Grieff (Colombia)

White Moon

Intro

Contents

Preface: Translation and Hallucination

Selected Translations

Delmira Agustini (Uruguay)

Fiera de amor

Humberto Ak'Abal (Guatemala)

The Dance

I Took Your Name Out of My Mind

Anna Akhmatova (Russia)

The Muse

Yehuda Amichai (Israel)

The Diameter of the Bomb

Enriqueta Arevalo Larriva (Venezuela)

We Were Not the Whole Tree

Yitzkhok Berliner (Poland)

Popocatepetl

Alberto Blanco (Mexico)

My Tribe

Maps

Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)

Borges and I

Julia de Burgos (Puerto Rico)

To Julia de Burgos

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

From the Ancient Laborer I.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780822988335

082298833X

OCLC:

1243305122