Animal for the eyes = Un animal para los ojos / Kenia Cano ; translated from the Spanish by Indran Amirthanayagam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cano, Kenia, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Amirthanayagam, Indran, 1960- translator.

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexican poetry--Women authors--21st century.

Mexican poetry.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Deer--Poetry.

Deer.

Mexican poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

v, 8-115 : portrait ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Animal para los ojos

Place of Publication:

New Orleans, LA : Diálogos, [2025]

Language Note:

Parallel text in English and Spanish.

Summary:

"In Animal For The Eyes Kenia Cano’s poetry reaches a maturation full of deep intensity and color. The symbolic deer emerges in the poems again and again. The first line of the book says: “She has a white deer in her eyes”. In successive poems the deer may become a surrogate image of the father, or a decapitated white deer, or a disembodied deer of which only the shadow is seen. Family and amorous ties are linked with the deer and its multiple presences. Remembrances are linked with dreams or with the perception that from dreams other glimpses of reality are captured, where memories themselves are questioned. However, the certainty of the body is repeatedly affirmed: “My body is a vehicle of fire”, to later say “My body is an open plain.”--lsa Cross.

ISBN:

9781956921380

1956921389

OCLC:

1535397372

Publisher Number:

90105157490