Women have always written love letters to real or imaginary recipients. Carlota Caulfield's At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire travels through visible and invisible cities to establish a dialogue with the fluid, suggestive body of letters by women, known and unknown, in love and rejected. The sequence of poems reveals a beautiful and thought-provoking dialogue of the written word through the ages and through memory, uniting in the passionate, intense voice of the writer. To read these love leters of other women is to create them anew in the voice of one's own being.

At the Paper Gates With Burning Desire

Literature & Fiction

Caulfield, Carlota

Poetry

InteliBooks

The Book of Giulio Camillo is a sequence of poems dedicated to the art of memory. The poems are an homage to Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480-1544), one of the most famous unknown men of the Italian Renaissance. He invented a "theater of memory," consisting of a model amphiteater into which a single spectator would insert his head and gaze not toward the stage, but toward the amphitheater's seven rows of seats. It included all branches of knowledge and a method to memorize them. Caulfield's sevenfold sections of seven tercets enact, rather than describe, Camillo's theatre. In limpid and piercing verses, Caulfield moves her narrating voice -- detached in the manner of Beckett or Borges -- from an initial state of receptivity to a point of plenitude.  The book is in three languages, English (translated by Mary G. Berg in collaboration with the author); Spanish; and Italian (translated by Pietro Civitareale).

The Book of Giulio Camillo

Carlota Caulfield's Ticket to Ride of is a collection of poems, essays and interviews. It is an autobiographical evocation of the author's family history, and a beautiful homage to her mother. Written over a period of years-from 1995 to 2005-these pieces make up a life as it is being lived and imagined. In them we find the poet's playful irony. Caulfield, like her beloved painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, loves intellectual puzzles.

Ticket to Ride

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

“Carlota Caulfield has given us a work of great sensuality and rare luminosity, suffused with an intelligence that is both playful and meditative. Her pleasures and discoveries become ours, her tender, often sly observations are crafted for inheritance. But it is Caulfield's devotion to the daily sacred that helps inspire our own.”—Cristina Garcia
 A Mapmaker’s Diary gathers a selection of poems from both published and unpublished work in a bilingual format by this verbal acrobat, juggler of words, and magician of memory.
 Carlota Caulfield is the author of nine books of poetry. She teaches at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

A Mapmaker's Diary (Secret Weavers Series) (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

White Pine Press

No soy tu musa. Antología de poetas irlandesas contemporáneas (Spanish Edition)

Goodby, John

Ediciones Torremozas

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