A young Mexican boy makes a kite that mysteriously restores a long-missing bell to the town's church.

Angel's Kite / La Estrella de Angel (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Blanco, Alberto

Literary

Turtleback Books

An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist, translator, and storyteller, his poetry explores the connections on frontiers between verbal, visual, and aural experience. He is both an innovator and a classicist, a materialist and a mystic, a visionary and a chronicler of everyday life.Here his poems converse with their English translations, to create "a singular book . . . not simply a bilingual edition, but one unified voice, a poetry that speaks of a world far beyond languages and borders." (from the introduction by Jose Emilio Pacheco)."The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes - in my way of thinking - a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more direct way, it is a prayer." ―Alvaro Mutis"Alberto Blanco's deep poetry inhabits both the world and the universe of imagination; these poems shed their own light and fly on their own wings." ―Michael McClureJuvenal Acosta is an author who has published fiction, journalism, and poetry. He is now a teacher at the California College of the Arts. His books include The Tattooed Hunter and The Violence of Velvet.José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014) was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He has been regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the 20th Century.

Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition)

Poetry

City Lights Publishers

A desert mermaid living in an oasis seeks to rediscover the forgotten songs of the ancestors

The Desert Mermaid/LA Sirena Del Desierto (English-Spanish) (English and Spanish Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Childrens Book Pr

A young boy makes a kite that mysteriously restores a long-missing bell to the town church

Angel's Kite / La estrella de Ángel

Tameme is the annual bilingual magazine of new writing from North America Canada, the United States, and Mexico.  What does tameme mean? It is a Nhuatl word for porter or messenger. Our hope is that Tameme will play that role, bringing new writing both north and south. For example, here are Alberto Blanco, Jaime Sabnes, and Juan Volloro translated into English; Margaret Atwood, Edwidge Danticat, and A. Manette Ansay translated into Spanish. I think you will agree: the originals are exquisite, the translations beautiful, and the juxtapositions very interesting.  Tameme is also a forum for the art of translation. In the back you will find a section devoted to the translator's notes, some of them technical, some very personal, others reflections on the art of translation in general. One of our favorite reflections is from Geoff Hargreaves' notes: "The pleasure resides in catching the echo of an authentic sounding voice, which is not exactly yours or the author's, but the speech of an imaginary figure with feet that straddle the border."  Enjoy!  C.M. Mayo, Editor

Tameme (Vol 1)

Ansay, A. Manette

Cardena, Agust¡n

Tameme, Inc

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Rathbun. This bilingual edition of Alberto Blanco's AFTERGLOW/TRAS EL RAYO represents the first full book of his work in translation and offers the poetry reading public a glimpse into the wide ranging focus that Señor Blanco takes with his language and his perception. The impeccable translation by Jennifer Rathbun helps make the entire volume not only accessible to the reader whose Spanish was limited, but brings the Spanish language alive in an English that is very welcoming.

Afterglow/Tras el rayo

The Bitter Oleander Press

Circling Beacons is recognized as Blanco's masterpiece, thanks to the fact that it introduced a new tone in Mexican poetry. The carefully structured architecture of the book does not oppose, but rather plays with the spontaneity of its masterful images. Poems inspired by surrealism, symbolism, Zen and English metaphysical poets, it is distinguished, above all, by the lessons learned in classical Chinese poetry. Blanco shows himself to be a true master of language in Circling Beacons by creating multiple layers of imagery and interpretations on each individual poem and the collection as a whole.

Circling Beacons (54) (World Poetry)

Guernica Editions

Is a blank page really blank? Beloved poet Alberto Blanco pulls back the curtain and illuminates all of the elements hidden in a single piece of paper- the tree it was made from, the rain and sun that allowed the tree to grow, and the people that created it. An enlightening read for readers young and old, it soon becomes clear that a blank page contains the whole cosmos. In The Blank Page, world-reknowned Mexican poet Alberto Blanco inspires children and adults to keep looking deeper, to never take things at face value. Charming illustrations by Rob Moss Wilson portray a world that slowly comes to life in a single sheet of paper- first the tree, then the forest, then the people are discovered, revealing the whole interrelated ecosystem of our world. As Blanco says- "Where nothing happens, there is a miracle we are not seeing."

The Blank Page: How a Piece of Paper Connects to Everything

Children's Books

Plum Blossom

Alberto Blanco becario del Centro Mexicano de Escritores y del INBA, obtuvo la Beca Fulbright e ingresó al Sistema Nacional de Creadores en 1994. El corazón del instante reúne doce libros de poesía escritos a lo largo de dos décadas (1973-1993)

El corazón del instante (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Esta edición contiene 12 libros de poesía de Alberto Blanco y constituye la segunda reunión de su poesía después de "El corazón del instante", de 1998. Los libros se presentan aquí no en el orden cronológico en que fueron escritos y publicados, sino con un orden cuidadosamente propuesto por el autor. Se trata, en realidad, de un ciclo completo de poemas agrupados en capítulos, "un libro estructurado y premeditado, y no una mera recolección de fortuitos momentos de inspiración".

La hora y la neblina (Latras Mexicanas) (Spanish Edition)

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