City of memory and other poems
- Title
- City of memory and other poems / by José Emilio Pacheco ; translated by Cynthia Steele and David Lauer.
- Published by
- San Francisco : City Lights, 1997.
- Author
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| Status | FormatBook/Text | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberPQ7298.26.A25 C5813 1997 | Item locationOff-site |
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- Description
- xix, 193 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "The leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations. The first, "City of Memory," touches on Pacheco's major literary obsessions: the destructive effects of time; the essential egotism and cruelty of the natural world, with humankind at its violent center; and the capacity of the human spirit to achieve transcendence. The second, "I watch the Earth," is an emotional catharsis, the poet's mediation on the tragic earthquake that devastated his native Mexico City in 1985. Together, these poems paint a vivid picture of the noble beauty and uncontrollable tragedy that is Mexico-and the world-today."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents
- Translator's Preface / Cynthia Steele and David Lauer -- Introduction / Juvenal Acosta -- Sea Snail -- Two Poems on Sligo Creek I. The Stream -- Two Poems on Sligo Creek II. Frost -- Hamletian -- Salt -- Cesar Vallejo -- Bogota -- Raindrop -- A Dog's Life -- Paper from Old Rags -- The Twentieth-Centurians -- Certainty -- Couples -- The Magic of Criticism -- Ashes -- Bend in the Ajusco Mountain -- The Island Garden -- Sun Shower -- Song of the Willow -- Hailstorm -- All Our Yesterdays -- The Wretched of the Earth -- For You -- A Farewell to Arms -- Sunday Light -- Walter Benjamin Leaves Paris (1940) -- Becquer and Rilke Meet in Seville -- Pottery from Colima -- The Defenseless -- Southern Seas -- The Enemy -- In Passing -- The Knife -- Live Bait -- The Ruins of Mexico (Elegy of the Return) -- Lamentations -- Praises -- The Names of Evil: The Salamander -- The Names of Evil: Cain -- The Names of Evil: Rites and Ceremonies -- The Names of Evil: Baroque Altar.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Language (note)
- Poems in Spanish with the English translation on the facing page.