Part of the Poetry Foundation’s ’Poets of the World’ series, featuring poems about places—imaginary or real—the poet isn’t from.
Innehållsförteckning
I. PARIS Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (Kotaro Takamura) Eiffel Tower (Vicente Huidobro) A Man from Ecuador Beneath the Eiffel Tower (Jorge Carrera Andrade) II. NEW YORK The Dawn (Federico GarcÃa Lorca)New York (trumpet solo for jazz orchestra) (Léopold Sédar Senghor)III. LOS ANGELES L.A. Nocturne: The Angels (Xavier Villaurrutia)Hollywood Elegies (Bertolt Brecht)IV. TRAINS & CARS Things I Didnât Know I Loved (Nâzim Hikmet) At the Wheel of the Chevrolet on the Road to Sintra (Fernando Pessoa) V. IMAGINARY COUNTRIES Norway (JoaquÃn Pasos) Guinea (Jacques Roumain) Ocean-Letter (Guillaume Apollinaire) The Water and Mongolia (Toriko Takarabe) VI. CODA Stay (Ingeborg Bachmann)
Om författaren
Eliot Weinberger: Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, poet, editor, and translator who won the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism for his edition of Jorge Luis Borges’s Selected Non-Fictions. His translations of Octavio Paz are highly regarded, as are his translations of Homero Aridjis, Bei Dao, and others Here is a complete list of contributors to this collection:Kotaro Takamura Vicente Huidobro Jorge Carrera Andrade Federico García Lorca Léopold Sédar Senghor Xavier Villaurrutia Bertolt Brecht Nâzim Hikmet Fernando Pessoa Joaquín Pasos Jacques Roumain Guillaume Apollinaire Toriko Takarabe Ingeborg Bachmann