Antonio Gamoneda (1931) is a Spanish poet. He was awarded with the inaugural European Prize for Literature, the Reina Sofia Award, and the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor in Spanish literature. He is the author of Sublevación inmóvil / Motionless Revolt (1960), Descripción de la mentira /A description of the Lie ( 1977), Edad /Age (Poetry 1947-1986 ), amongst others. Written in the 1960s and censored for political reasons in Francoist Spain, Castilian Blues was only published in 1982. This is its first English edition. Translated by Benito del Pliego & Andrés Fisher. Art cover: "En Geometría" by Iván Blanco

Castilian Blues (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Gamoneda, Antonio

Poetry

Quantum Prose

About the Author\nAntonio Gamoneda was born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain in 1931 and grew up in León. Gamoneda was deeply involved in the resistance movement opposed to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, in power from 1939 to 1975. His first book was published in 1960 and shortlisted for the Adonais Prize. He did not bring out another book until 1977. His work only began to receive the attention it deserved after he was awarded the Castilla y León Poetry Prize in 1985 and the National Poetry Prize in 1987. In 2006, Gamoneda received the two highest honors a writer can receive in the Spanish-speaking world, the Reina Sofía Poetry Prize and the Cervantes Prize. Self- taught and prolific, a unique voice in post-Civil War Spanish poetry, he continues to be a vital and powerful poetic presence in Spain and throughout the world.\nKatherine M. Hedeen is a translator, literary critic, and essayist. A specialist in Latin American poetry, she has translated some of the most respected voices from the region. Her publications include book-length collections by Jorgenrique Adoum's PREPOEMS IN POSTSPANISH AND OTHER POEMS (Action Books, 2021), Juan Bañuelos, Juan Calzadilla, Juan Gelman, Fayad Jamís, Hugo Mujica, José Emilio Pacheco, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's FROM A RED BARN (co-im-press, 2020) and NIGHT BADLY WRITTEN: Poems 2000-2015 (Action Books, 2020), Legna Rodrigues Iglesias's TÍTULO/TITLE (Kenning Editions, 2020), and Ida Vitale, among many others. Her work has been a finalist for both the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award. She is a recipient of two NEA Translation grants in the US and a PEN Translates award in the UK. She is a Managing Editor for Action Books and the Poetry in Translation Editor at the Kenyon Review. She resides in Ohio, where she is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.\nVictor Rodríguez Núñez (Havana) is one of Cuba's most outstanding and celebrated contemporary writers, with over fifty collections of his poetry published throughout the world. He has been the recipient of major awards in the Spanish-speaking region, including, in 2015, the coveted Loewe Prize. His selected poems have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Serbian, Swedish, and Vietnamese. He has been a riveting presence at the most important international literary festivals, having read in more than forty countries. In the last decade, his work has developed an enthusiastic readership in the US and the UK, where he has published seven book-length translations. He divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is currently Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba.\nBOOK OF THE COLD is the long-overdue English translation of legendary Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's 1992 long poem--a surreal, folkloric, modernist masterpiece between poetry and prose. 
"When a younger generation of Spanish poets began to awaken and stretch their creative limbs at the dawn of a post-Franco era, what they found, intensified by decades of resistance and years of silence, was the beacon of Antonio Gamoneda's mature poetry. His evocative sensual palette--the scent, feel, taste, and sound of conflicted experience, a lurching between the repellent and the irresistible--is virtually without comparison. But the real miracle of his work is how he combines that flashy richness with such syntactical concision, and with a folkloric strangeness peculiar to his work alone. The extraordinary translation by Katherine Hedeen and Victor Rodríguez Núñez maintains the compression of the Spanish by often allowing the agency carried by a Spanish verb to be absorbed completely into the English verb. So, for example, 'Fing 'a un rostro' becomes 'Faked a face.' And so in English, as in Spanish, the verb, not the subject, controls the sentence"-- Forrest Gander 
"Antonio Gamoneda's BOOK OF THE COLD, a long poem in the modernist tradition, is an undisputed masterpiece by Spain

Book of the Cold

World Poetry Books

Blues castellano

Plaza & Janes Editories Sa

La prisión transparente

Vaso Roto Ediciones

Esta luz. Volumen I (1947-2004)

Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.

Esta luz. Volumen 2 (1995, 2005-2019): Poesía reunida

La casa del poeta

Palomas, Alejandro

Pérez-Sauquillo, Vanesa

Uribe, Kirmen

Peri Rossi, Cristina

Cebrián, Mercedes

Margarit, Joan

Barba, Andrés

Merino, Ana

CASTRO, LUISA

Clark, Ben

Adón, Pilar

Pérez López, María Ángeles

Néstore, Ángelo

García Valdés, Olvido

LANSEROS, RAQUEL

Moreno, Lara

Rossetti, Ana

Batres, Izara

Astur, Manuel

Caballero Bonald, José Manuel

Juaristi, Jon

Díaz-Pimienta, Alexis

Brines, Francisco

García Faet, Berta

Conejero, Alberto

Novo, Olga

Salas, Ada

Peyrou, Mariano

Lucas, Antonio

Sanz, María

Campos, Joaquín

Lostalé, Javier

González Rossi, Aida

Linares, Abelardo

Cid, Alba

Santamaría, Alberto

Oseguera, Ale

Simón Partal, Alejandro

Brezmes, Alfonso

García Núñez, Alicia

Guzmán, Almudena

Bautista, Amalia

Iglesias Serna, Amalia

Castro, Ana

Gorría, Ana

Pérez Cañamares, Ana

Vidal Egea, Ana

Sudón, Andrés

Segovia, Ángela

Serna, Ángela

Martí, Arturo

Luque, Aurora

Asensio, Carlos

Camacho, Carmen

Molina, Constantino

Sarrión, David

Escoffet, Eduard

Marínez, Erika

Espinosa, Estíbaliz

Escarpa, Gonzalo

Hermo, Gonzalo

Larretxea, Hasier

Ge, Jesús

Klimt, Annita

Ferrando, Bartolomé

Altaió, Gerard

Vega, Gustavo

Interventaria

Ferrer, Isidro

Cardosa, Juan

Moranta, Manuel

Carver, Mara

Carrió, Pep

Proyecto Genoma Poético

Blasco, Susana

Payeras, Joan

Pérez Azaústre, Joaquín

García, José Daniel

Parra, Josefa

Pedrals, Josep

Mestre, Juan Carlos

Aguilar, Juan Domingo

Rivero, Juan F.

Gallego Benot, Juan

Maqués, Juan

Piera, Julia

Valero, Julieta

Iribarren, Karmelo

Murua, Kepa

López, Lara

Laura Casielles

Bilbao, Leire

Romero, Manolo

Massanet, Mª Antònia

Eloy García, María

Llamero, Maribel Andrés

Alonso, Martha Asunción

d'Ors, Miguel

Calafell, Mireia

Trampa Ediciones

En este libro se reúnen dos tipos de composiciones. Por un lado. "Cecilia", poema excepcional que, sin romper el hilo indagatorio de sus anteriores composiciones, encuentra en la figura de su nieta, que da título al libro, un camino para la emisión de su voz más dulcificada. Un canto crepuscular, de amor y despedida, escrito desde una extraña y luminosa frontera donde la vida y la muerte se confunden y delimitan un territorio definido por la palabra. Por otro lado, en los "Exentos" ( I, II III, y IV) se agrupan poemas en tránsito entre dos libros, poemas reelaborados, corregidos, fruto de relecturas, revisiones, nuevas miradas y aportes con que el poeta fortalece el sentido de su obra.

Cecilia y otros poemas (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

"No hay otra obra poética entre nosotros tan transida de frío ni tan consciente del miedo." Carlos Piera

Esta luz: Poesía reunida (Spanish Edition)

Es como un relato refluyente de lo que ya no es, de lo perdido y olvidado, que sin embargo, aún arde y se afirma luminoso y cryel en la inminencia.

Arden las pérdidas (Marginales) (Spanish Edition)

Tusquets Editores S.A.

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