20th century argentine literature
20th century latin american literature
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argentine literature
argentine military government
argentine poet
argentine poetry
Author_Juan Gelman
brutality
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cervantes prize
dignity
dirty war
disappeared
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human spirit
jewish heritage
juan rulfo award
latin american literature
latin american poetry
military junta
political exile
political literature
politics of argentina
postcolonialism
social commentary
social conscience
struggles
tenderness
translated poetry
translated text
Product details
- ISBN 9780520205871
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership. Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were "disappeared"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology.Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss. "Remembering their little bones when it rains/the companerosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces" - from "Remembering Their Little Bones".
Born in Buenos Aires in 1930, Juan Gelman went into political exile in Europe in 1976, where he remained until 1989. Today he lives in Mexico City. Joan Lindgren spent seven years studying Gelman's work and made six visits to Argentina while doing her research.
