Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Catherine Hammond. "We've been waiting so long, so expectantly for the poetry of Olvido García Valdés to appear in English translations that convey her signal importance to contemporary poetry in Spain and to international literature. She is one of the great ones. García Valdés taps a mode as essential as the Virgilian pastoral. She pressurizes and opens vents in the syntax, inciting eruptions in logic, emphasizing somatic connections between flesh and world. Characteristically, she braids underdetermined phrasal strands, agencies, points of view, and conceptual and emphatically sensual registers. While absence and negation are key themes in her work, the poems can be sharply funny and they come, against the darkness of our times, to assert a convincing spiritual buoyancy. With an ear keenly tuned to García Valdés' complex music, translator Catherine Hammond often leads with the verb in English, tuning to the Spanish and keeping the agency of the verb open, recreating the stripped down and exigent quality of the original, a quality intensified by the Spanish poet's tendency to juxtapose fragments without subordinating one to the other. This is an important book. You'll know that as soon as you begin to read the poems."—Forrest Gander TRANSLATOR BIO: Catherine Hammond has a BA in Spanish from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. Poems translated from Olvido García Vald és' collection AND WE WERE ALL ALIVE / Y TODOS ESTÁBAMOS VIVOS appear as a chapbook, House Surrounded by Scaffold, from Mid-American Review. Hammond translated Mexican poet, Carmen Boullosa, in a volume of selected poems which was a finalist in Drunken Boat's book contest. She has also published work from Venezuelan poet, María Auxiliadora Álvarez, and fiction writer, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, from Spain. These translations appear in American Poetry Review, Words without Borders, Hayden's Ferry Review, Field, and many other national magazines. Hammond's own poetry has been anthologized in Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry from University of Arizona Press, in MARGIN: Exploring Modern Magical Realism, and in Yellow Silk from Warner Books. She has three Pushcart nominations. Hammond lives in Sun Lakes, Arizona, with her husband Troy Morrow.

And We Were All Alive

Literature & Fiction

García Valdés, Olvido

Poetry

Cardboard House Press

El arte de perder y otros poemas

Rosenberg, Mirta

Editorial Pre-Textos

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

LANSEROS, RAQUEL

Gamoneda, Antonio

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

dentro del animal la voz: (Antología 1982-2012)

Ediciones Cátedra

Tusquets. Barcelona. 2006. 21 cm. 217 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Nuevos textos sagrados', numero coleccion(236.). García Valdés, Olvido 1950-. Marginales. 236. Nuevos textos sagrados .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-8310-474-1

Y todos estábamos vivos

Tusquets Editores S.A.

Lo solo del animal (Spanish Edition)

Mecánica del vuelo. En torno al poeta Aníbal Núñez

Ullán, José-Miguel

Talens, Jenaro

Castaño, Francisco

Gutiérrez, Menchu

R. de la Flor, Fernando

Piera Gil, Carlos

Méndez Rubio, Antonio

González, Tomás Salvador

Díaz, Susana

Sánchez Rubio, Tomás

Prieto de Paula, Ángel Luis

Rodríguez, Ildefonso

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