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For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, Raúl Zurita, and dozens of others have become classics. This volume, which includes poems from more than forty poets from all over the world, is testimony to a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in different languages.
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Selected Translations
For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, Raúl Zurita, and dozens of others have become classics. This volume, which includes poems from more than forty poets from all over the world, is testimony to a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in different languages.
“Lightning from the Stable” by Elizabeth Schön (Venezuela, 1921–2007)
You don’t choose
the abyss, the chaos, the nothingness
They reach you
in water running slowly
for you not to be surprised
by the absence of matter around you
near the light of the soul calling
the wing’s passing flap of the earth you live in.
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A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican
American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A
Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative
descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary
creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and
other cultures of Latin America.
From the siren-like Acuecuéyotl and the water animal Chaac to
the class-conscious Oc and the god of light and darkness Xólotl,
the magnificent entities in this volume belong to the same family
of real and invented creatures imagined by Dante, Franz Kafka, C.
S. Lewis, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, and J. K. Rowling. They
are mined from indigenous religious texts, like the Popol
Vuh, and from chronicles, both real and fictional, of the
Spanish conquest by Diego Durán, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and
Fernando de Zarzamora, among others. In this playful compilation,
Stavans distills imagery from the work of magic realist masters
such as Juan Rulfo and Gabriel García Márquez; from songs of
protest in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru; and from aboriginal beasts
in Jewish, Muslim, European, British, and other traditions. In the
spirit of imaginative invention, even the bibliography is a mixture
of authentic and concocted material.
An inspiring record of resistance and memory from a civilization
whose superb pantheon of myths never ceases to amaze, A
Pre-Columbian Bestiary will delight anyone interested in the
history and culture of Latin America.
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Fútbol
\"This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos\"--Provided by publisher.
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What is la hispanidad?
Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad. Or do they? In this lively, provocative book, two distinguished intellectuals, a cultural critic and a historian, engage in a series of probing conversations in which they try to discern the nature of la hispanidad and debate whether any such shared identity binds the world's nearly half billion people who are \"Hispanic.\" Their conversations range from La Reconquista and Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, who united the Spanish nation while expelling its remaining Moors and Jews, to the fervor for el fútbol (soccer) that has swept much of Latin America today. Along the way, they discuss a series of intriguing topics, including the complicated relationship between Latin America and the United States, Spanish language and the uses of Spanglish, complexities of race and ethnicity, nineteenth-century struggles for nationhood and twentieth-century identity politics, and popular culture from literary novels to telenovelas. Woven throughout are the authors' own enlightening experiences of crossing borders and cultures in Mexico and Chile and the United States. Sure to provoke animated conversations among its readers, What is la hispanidad? makes a convincing case that \"our hispanidad is rooted in a changing tradition, flexible enough to persist beyond boundaries and circumstances. Let us not fix it with a definition, but allow it instead to travel, always.\"
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