Theory of the voice and dream / Liliana Ponce ; translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ponce, Liliana, Author.

Contributor:

Shea, Michael Martin, translator.

Standardized Title:

Teoría de la voz y el sueño. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/3adb03fd-0f63-ade4-187e-d0780e6aa74b

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Ponce, Liliana--Translations into English.

Ponce, Liliana.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

198 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : World Poetry, 2025.

Language Note:

Text in parallel original Spanish with English translation.

Summary:

"Obsessing on the relationship between creation and absence, Argentine poet Liliana Ponce presents an unsettling meditation on body, language, and self. For the first time in English, this edition brings together Ponce's serial poems from the closing years of the twentieth century, the widely anthologized Theory of the Voice and Dream and Fudekara, a shorter sequence written in response to a Japanese calligraphy course. In these major works, Ponce questions the nature of writing itself, of how to write when "to write today is an emptiness," or when "mouth and voice cannot find each other." Breaking with Argentine poetic conventions, Ponce charts a new model for poesis -- oneiric, embodied, and urgent. As she says, "I write so I don't have to speak, so I don't have to watch." Latin American Literature. Argentine Literature. Poetry. Women Writers. Translation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Translator's introduction

The somber season

Beyond the somber season

Only the eye sees blue

Knowledge scatters the body

Diary

Other poems. Love in oceans of sand

Psyche and Eros

Allegory of the morning

House as kingdom

Fudekara.

Notes:

"The works included in this book were originally published by tsé-tsé in Buenos Aires, Argentina as Teoría de la voz y el sueño (2001) and Fudekara (2008)"--Title page verso.

Contains:

Ponce, Liliana Fudekara. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/f9110014-a81c-b21d-6e0b-cfb81c1d49a7.

ISBN:

9781954218338

1954218338

OCLC:

1527215298