The New World Written Selected Poems Maria Baranda, Paul Hoover
- Price: £25.00
- Pre-order
Share this page:
- Series:
- The Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 27 Jul 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780300241242
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 256 pages: 197 x 127mm
Categories:
A lyrical collection of the finest poems by a leading Mexican poet, superbly translated for English readers
The poetry of María Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world: transcendent in scope, attentive to the particular, and acutely aware of the mystery of being. Absorbed by nature’s otherness, Baranda seeks to inhabit the voices of the wind, of wings, night, day, and perhaps most keenly, water. These lyrical verses turn repeatedly to the longings and griefs of embodiment: “What is that God / To be praised with all our sadness / If not love / Or at least the wonder / Of being a body full of blood,” Baranda asks.
Drawing on epics such as the Aeneid and Beowulf, the mystical verses of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and writers who engage the landscape of shore and sea from Daniel Defoe to Dylan Thomas, this sweeping collection brings together the finest poems of one of today’s most powerful and innovative Mexican writers.
Award-winning poet María Baranda is a major figure in contemporary Latin American literature. She lives in Mexico City. Paul Hoover is professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.
-
Kindred Voices
Michael Pifer£35.00 -
Islamic Thought in Africa
Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura£65.00 -
Yale French Studies, Number 137/138
Thomas C. Connolly£50.00 -
The Aeneid
Vergil£12.99 -
The Craft of Poetry
Lucy Newlyn£14.99 -
A Little History of Poetry
John Carey£9.99 -
Heinrich Heine
George Prochnik£16.99 -
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
Harold Bloom£25.00 -
For Now
Eileen Myles£12.99 -
A Little History of Poetry
John Carey£14.99 -
Joy
Christian Wiman£14.99 -
For My People
Margaret Walker£14.99 -
Radical Love
Omid Safi£14.99 -
The Poetry of Pop
Adam Bradley£16.99 -
Sounds
Wassily Kandinsky£18.99 -
What We Live For, What We Die For
Serhiy Zhadan£12.99 -
The Year of Blue Water
Yanyi£14.99 -
The Year of Blue Water
Yanyi£30.00 -
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?
Adam Kirsch£18.00
-
Warda
Sonallah Ibrahim£20.00 -
Words as Grain
Duo Duo£20.00 -
The Orphanage
Serhiy Zhadan£14.99 -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
Laszlo F. Foldenyi£12.99 -
Mechanisms of Loss
Michel Fais£20.00 -
Invisible Ink
Patrick Modiano£16.00 -
That Light, All at Once
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen£25.00 -
Stories for the Years
Luigi Pirandello£20.00 -
The Third Walpurgis Night
Karl Kraus£25.00 -
I Live in the Slums
Can Xue£20.00 -
The Punishment
Tahar Ben Jelloun£18.00 -
The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon£11.99 -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
Laszlo F. Foldenyi£18.99 -
Sleep of Memory
Patrick Modiano£10.99 -
The Dregs of the Day
Mairtin O Cadhain£9.99 -
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
António Lobo Antunes£18.99 -
A Greek Ballad
Michalis Ganas£30.00 -
Family Record
Patrick Modiano£12.99 -
The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon£16.99