Woodslane | Book - 9781857545432

Quick Search Category Search Publisher Search Bulk Search Clear Search

Popular Subjects

Woodslane Online Catalogues

Add to Cart

Eyes to See Otherwise

ISBN-13: 9781857545432
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Homero Aridjis
Price: AUD $42.99
Stock: 0 in stock
Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
Local release date: 28/01/2002
Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 126.00mm) 327 pages Weight: 425g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

Description
Author Biography
Reviews
Google Preview: "Eyes To See Otherwise" is the first extensive selection of poems by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The range and quality of the translations, by some of America's finest poets, mark the centrality of his work on the map of modern poetry. W.S. Merwin writes, "In his early books, it was immediately clear that Homero Aridjis was a poet of great vitality and originality ...[his] range grew with astonishing vigour in one book after another ...Poems of his have been published in English translation for decades but it is more than time to have a large, widely representative selection of his poems available in English". Charles Tomlinson recalls, "When I first met Homero Aridjis, he was a youthful poet. He has carried that sense of youth with him throughout his life and it has left a mark on all his work. Born in a Mexican village, near which the monarch butterflies swarm yearly after their flight from Canada, he experienced early life in a profound relationship with the cycles of nature. This lies at the root of his two principal concerns, poetry and ecology. He not only writes of the whale, but has long fought for the protection of its breeding places in Baja California". Kenneth Rexroth calls him "a visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline concentrations and infinite spaces". He adds, "These are words for a new "Magic Flute"".; Homero Aridjis, twice a Guggenheim Fellow, was born in Michoacan, of Mexican-Greek antecedents, in 1940. Poet, novelist, columnist and activist, he is president of International P.E.N. He was Mexican ambassador to the Netherlands and to Switzerland. Among other marks of recognition, in 1997 he received the Prix Roger Callois in France for his poetry and prose.; 'Homero Aridjis's poems open a door into the light.' - Seamus Heaney; Google Preview content