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Jose Lezama Lima : Selections / Jose. Lezama Lima.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lezama Lima, José, author.
- Series:
- Poets for the millennium ; Volume 4.
- Poets for the Millennium ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lezama Lima, José--Translations into English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Recognized as one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima, born in Cuba in 1910, is associated with the Latin American neo-baroque and has influenced several generations of writers in and out of Cuba, including such prominent poets as Severo Sarduy and Néstor Perlongher. Lezama Lima's vision of America in a continental sense stands at the fertile confluence of indigenous, African, and European influences. A crucial experimental writer, he has been known in English chiefly for his novel Paradiso, while little of his poetry has been translated. This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to Lezama Lima's poetry. It presents for the first time in English a generous selection of his poems, as well as an interview, essays, and critical work on his poetics. Ernesto Livon-Grosman has selected elegant and precise translations by James Irby, G.J. Racz, Nathaniel Tarn, and Roberto Tejada. His insightful introduction places the poet in the wider context of Cuban and Latin American cultural history.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TRANSCENDING NATIONAL POETICS. A New Reading of José Lezama Lima
- KEY TO TRANSLATORS
- POEMS
- DOCUMENTS
- Confluences (1968)
- Interview with José Lezama Lima (1964)
- To Reach Lezama Lima (1967)
- Letter from Lezama (1969)
- Selected Bibliography
- Credits
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520936553
- 0520936558
- OCLC:
- 1224278499
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