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Afterword
Alcoholism
All things
Alley
Anecdote
Apple juice
Applicant (sketch)
Author_Jaime Saenz
Bolivia
Bookcase
Bowler hat
Butcher knife
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Chair
Choqueyapu River
Cloister
Coffin
Criticism
Delicacy
Eliot Weinberger
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Fireplace
Furniture
Harassment
His Family
Humour
Illimani
Illustration
In Death
Irony
Jaime
La Flora
Laborer
Lake Titicaca
Life-Like
Literature
Malaise
Metonymy
Misericorde (weapon)
Modernism
Neglect
Neologism
Oligarchy
Pachamama
Peso
Plath
Pocket watch
Poetic tradition
Poetry
Pollera
Porcelain
Postmodernism
Pseudonym
Pyrography
Quino
Racism
Reverberation
Shawl
Singani
Stefan George
Synecdoche
Tailor
Technology
Teleology
The Barricades
The Image of the City
The Other Hand
The Various
Torpor
Urinal
Via Negativa (The X-Files)
Violet ray
Writing table
Product details
- ISBN 9780691124834
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Jaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent, hallucinatory, brilliant--and, until recently, available only in Spanish. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson's translations of Saenz's work have garnered much-deserved attention and acclaim. Here for the first time in English they give us his masterpiece, The Night, Saenz's most famous poem and the last he wrote before his death in 1986. An unusual man, Saenz lived his whole life in La Paz, Bolivia, seldom venturing far from the city and its indigenous culture that feature so prominently in his writings. He sought God in unlikely places: slum taverns, alcoholic excess, the street. Saenz was nocturnal. He once stole a leg from a cadaver and hid it under his bed. On his wedding night he brought home a panther. In this epic poem, Saenz explores the singular themes that possessed him: alcoholism, death, nightmares, identity, otherness, and his love for La Paz. The poem's four movements culminate in some of the most profoundly mystical, beautiful, and disturbing passages of modern Latin American poetry.
They are presented here in this faithful and inspired English translation of the Spanish original. Complete with an introduction by the translators that paints a vivid picture of the poet's life, and an afterword by Luis H. Antezana, a notable Bolivian literary critic and close friend of Saenz, this bilingual edition is the essential introduction to one of the most visionary and enigmatic poets of the Hispanic world.
Forrest Gander is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of numerous books, including "Eye Against Eye". Kent Johnson is Instructor of English and Spanish at Highland Community College. His books include "Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War".
