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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
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