Number of Pages: 117
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Caribbean & Latin American
Format: Paperback
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Age Range: Adult
Author: Roberto Juarroz
Language: Spanish
About the Book
Octavio Paz called the late Roberto Juarroz, one of Latin America's most distinguished contemporary poets, "a poet of absolute instants."
Book Synopsis
Roberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world. We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume.
Mary Crow is a translator and former Colorado Poet Laureate. Her most recent collection is I Have Tasted the Apple.
About the Author
Mary Crow:
Poet Laureate of Colorado, Mary Crow is the author of nine books, five of her own poetry and four of translation. Her books of poetry include the full length collections, I Have Tasted the Apple (1996) and Borders (1989) and the chapbooks, The High Cost of Living (2002), The Business of Literature (1981) and Going Home (1979). Her books of poetry translation include Engravings Torn from Insomnia: Poems by Olga Orozco (2002), Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems by Roberto Juarroz (1992), From the Country of Nevermore: Poems by Jorge Teillier (1990), Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets (1987).