In order to talk with the dead : selected poems of Jorge Teillier / translated with an introduction by Carolyne Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teillier, Jorge.

Contributor:

Wright, Carolyne, translator, writer of introduction.

Series:

Texas Pan American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teillier, Jorge--Translations into English.

Teillier, Jorge.

Teillier, Jorge-Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, 1993.

Summary:

"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." —from "In Order to Talk with the Dead" Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career. Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore."

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "From the Land of Nevermore: On the Poetry of Jorge Teillier"

Translator's Note

PART ONE Poems from Muertes y maravillas (Deaths and Wonders) (1953-1971)

PART TWO Poems from Para un pueblo fantasma (For a Town of Ghosts) (1978)

PART THREE Poems from Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (Letters to Queens of Other Springs) (1985)

Note

About the Poet

About the Translator

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-75357-8

OCLC:

1286806460