Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership. Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were "disappeared"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss. "remembering their little bones when it rains/ the compañerosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces"—from Remembering Their Little Bones

Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

GELMAN, JUAN

Poetry

University of California Press

Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership. Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were "disappeared"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss. "remembering their little bones when it rains/ the compañerosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces"―from Remembering Their Little Bones

GALEANO, EDUARDO

Lindgren, Joan

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford. Bilingual Edition. "why beneath the glory of this sun / do i sorrow like an ox?" A bull awakes one day to the realization that he's a castrated, browbeaten ox but is then briefly abstracted from this sorrow as the morning sun gently warms his hide and lifts heady aromas from the grass; while a man, graced with human cogitation, but burdened with the general suffering that surrounds him, delights in gorgeous women walking through flowery plats, who fleetingly offer distraction: this ambivalent oxen attitude pervades Juan Gelman's OXEN RAGE. Rife with speculation and uncertainty, this is a book of ruminations, written in language at times unorthodox and full of quirky coinages, often playful and paradoxical, always musical and richly imaginative. "OXEN RAGE is a 'midpoint 20th century' masterwork by a poet 'wretched and proud,' 'obscure in all his emberglow.' An exile, as Dante &amp; so many 'word-concertistas' before him, Juan Gelman 'disorders the chaos / with demented exactitude.' To have this core book of his oeuvre become available now, accurately and beautifully englished, is a major event—and a superb &amp; most useful guide through this, our own, demented century."—Pierre Joris "With her precise and imaginative translations, Lisa Rose Bradford makes it possible for the English-language reader to finally know one of the masterpieces of 20th-century Latin American poetry, Juan Gelman's OXEN RAGE. The work is a major crossroads in the leading thoroughfares traversed by this author, a model of rebellion and freedom, of devotion and rigor, in his exploration of reality through poetry. Each one of the 'the remains of nine books' that makes up OXEN RAGE has its own character and in their sequence achieves the total integration of the political and aesthetic avant-garde. Gelman takes on poetry as a widening of the understanding of the world, as the possibility of universal dialogue, as a radically transformative act."—Víctor Rodríguez Núñez "Juan Gelman's groundbreaking OXEN RAGE—one of the key works of Spanish-language poetry published in the second half of the twentieth century—engages the question of translation in unexpected and fascinating ways. Fortunately for English-speaking readers, Lisa Rose Bradford has produced an astonishing version in English of this masterpiece by the 2007 Cervantes Prize winner, published here in a wonderfully edited bilingual volume. Word by word, poem by poem, and book by book, Bradford carefully reproduces the playful logic of translation that pervades Gelman's original with exceptional ease and grace. If, as the Argentine poet suggests, the poems of Cólera buey constitute a 'herd of pieces that aspire to breathe,' Bradford manages to reproduce in OXEN RAGE that same vital aspiration by subtly recreating the many different dictions, tones, and voices that articulate Gelman's experimental conceptualization of poetic creation as a process of translation. As Bradford's version powerfully shows us, it is precisely here, in the crucial space where translation and creative writing ambiguously blur lines-an essential tradition of modern poetics gradually established by writers of the stature of Fernando Pessoa, Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges, Jack Spicer, or Mary Jo Bang—where Gelman's OXEN RAGE undoubtedly deserves a distinguished place."—Ignacio Infante, Washington University in St. Louis "His writing is like a gust of wind, like a pounding wave where the sands delight in his verbal marvels, broken sentences, absence of punctuation, fractured rhythms that link, superimpose, interrupt and chop, leaving the poem in a question mark, which is a mark of life, the frozen sign of doubt. OXEN RAGE is a key book in twentieth- century Argentine literature, and with its publication, Gelman became an indispensable figure in the world of literature."—Marcelo Pichon Rivière, writer &amp; filmmaker

Oxen Rage

co-im-press

This translation offers to English readers for the first time the splendid verse of imaginary American author Sidney West, created by Juan Gelman, one of the greatest living poets of the Hispanic world. These laments question Western assumptions surrounding death, erase boundaries between poetry and narrative, privilege the magical as a vital aspect of reality and seek the transformation of the lyric persona.

The Poems of Sidney West (Earthworks) (English and Spanish Edition)

Salt Publishing

"Perhaps the most admirable element of Gelman's poetry is the unthinkable tenderness he shows . . . calling upon so many shadows for one voice to lull and comfort, a permanent caress of words on unknown tombs."Julio Cortázar
As Juan Gelman's name begins appearing with regularity on lists predicting Noble-Laureate-deserving poets, his work has also begun to appear in English. But only now are the most stunning translations of Gelman's poetry being published, and in one substantial volume. Dark Times Filled with Light traces the evolution of a gifted lyrical poet’s encounter with the political, when the poet’s son and daughter-in-law become 'disappeared' by the Argentinian government, and the poet must write from both a literal and metaphysical exile.
In this posthumously realized labor of love by the legendary translator Hardie St. Martin, Gelman's staggering biography, and the poetics he developed to articulate and survive it, are unforgettably translated into beautiful and accessible poems that, taken together, weave a fragile but healing transformation. "There are losses," says Gelman in a moving understatement. "The important thing is how returning to them transforms them into something new."
Juan Gelman is one of the most-read poets in Argentina, and a noted political activist. Among his most recent awards are the Juan Rulfo Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize, and the Cervantes Prize.
Hardie St. Martin was a master translator. Over his life he translated Pablo Neruda, Luisa Valenzuela, and many other. He also edited the landmark anthology, Roots and Wings.

Dark Times Filled with Light

Open Letter

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford. Appearing in English translation for the first time, TODAY (HOY) by Juan Gelman (1930-2014) is the final book published during the life of one of Latin America's most important and celebrated poets. Written as both a reckoning and a reflection following the 2011 sentencing of those responsible for disappearing Gelman's son Marcelo in 1976 during Argentina's Dirty War, TODAY's 288 prose poems vacillate between the depths of anguish and celebrations of the day, as the poet wrestles with being, loss, and the central paradox of much of his late verse: the injustice inherent in knowing anything that exists can't help being fully itself, while simultaneously mired in a process of becoming that has no attainable endpoint. Surprising, beautiful, and relentlessly questioning, Gelman's poetry pushes language's capacity for expression to its absolute limit. Readers will find the poems of TODAY a treasure trove--rich, moving, musical, and full of complex ideas, lingering imagery, and stunning turns of phrase. Feelingly Englished by award-winning translator Lisa Rose Bradford, these gemlike compositions hail the ear and inner eye, and reward rereading, as the more time we spend with Gelman's poems allows light to catch new facets and reveal their brilliance. "Grief and crushing darkness are the inescapable companions of these poems, whose world appears to be as fractured as the grammar and form of Juan Gelman's spare and concentrated verse. In this barbaric place where children are disappeared, where pain never ends and justice is ambivalent, the 'poem of harsh lineage' and 'unsheltered words' just may find, however, 'perfection in the loss.' Lisa Rose Bradford translates this difficult news in clean and muscular phrases that push constantly and generatively against the terrible truths of TODAY."--Sidney Wade "The world of TODAY is the present, a dark forest, that which is here, within and surrounding each of us: the 'Today,' a strange extreme, unlimited, insistent, inevitable, ungraspable. There are no words to fathom so much reality. Ungraspable, yet inescapable, the present clamours to be named; this is the adventure into which this book hurls itself headlong."--Daniel Freidemberg "Juan Gelman's last book is a work that grieves, that savors grief, personal and collective. Or more aptly, as ars poetica, these poems find the impulse to grieve deep in poetry itself--as Gelman has written: 'I've never been the owner of my ashes, my poems.' These elegant, chisel's edge inscriptions read like epigrams, like the very first epigrams, which were epitaphs engraved on tombs...This is a translation that, in its turn, relishes what is lost. Lisa Rose Bradford is remarkably receptive, tuned to the subtlest nuances in Gelman's language, intimate and estranging. This translation is a masterful rendering--and an homage to one of Argentina's greatest poets."--Michelle Gil-Montero "I find it hard to read HOY/TODAY without crying, but it's the kind of crying that's good for you. Full of sadness and beauty, spelling out loss and redemption, and absences remembered, the running verses of Juan Gelman's HOY speak of longing, singing with sentiment and love. And Lisa Rose Bradford's version is every bit as compelling as the original reflected in this bilingual edition...Juan Gelman is an indispensable figure in human rights--and in the tireless and essential labor of love involved in singing through verse."--Sergio Waisman "This urgent, luminous text is doubly haunted: the poems by the murder of the poet's son, the translations by the death in 2014 of the poet himself. It offers, as Lisa Rose Bradford notes in her fine introduction, 'insomniac inventories,' flashes of 'conflictive beauty,' and 'extreme condensation of thought and image,' as if Gelman were 'dragging the canals of thought in order to leave a final testimony.' The passion of Gelman's testimony comes through beautifully in Bradford's English."--Geoffrey Brock

Today

Un volumen que reúne toda la obra poética de uno de los mejores poetas de nuestro tiempo y que incluye un bellísimo prólogo de Julio Cortázar escrito en 1981, y un texto de Pere Gimferrer escrito expresamente para este volumen. Una obra que muestra una trayectoria que se caracteriza por la enorme variedad de registros de un

Poesía reunida

Seix-Barral

Cada poema de Gelman es un tejido orgánico donde el último verso ilumina al primero, y el primero le confiere su densidad al último. En él sólo ocasionalmente hay mensajes, las afirmaciones que unen la esperanza y la desesperanza, pero en cambio sí se multiplican las señales, las frases inconclusas, los silencios a modo de síntesis, y una larga conversación consigo mismo, donde el hipócrita lector es su hermano, pero no su cómplice.

Otromundo. Antología 1956-2007 (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Anunciaciones

VISOR LIBROS, S.L.

El exilio es uno de los temas que con mayor pasión se debaten hoy en nuestro país pródigo en generar hechos de tal espesor y otros aún más dramáticos, que desgarraron a la sociedad argentina Los textos que integran este volumen no pretenden dirimir posiciones teóricas ni ser portadores de verdades absolutas. Simplemente son

Exilio (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Planeta

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Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems

Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems

Oxen Rage

The Poems of Sidney West (Earthworks) (English and Spanish Edition)

Dark Times Filled with Light

Today

Poesía reunida

Otromundo. Antología 1956-2007 (Spanish Edition)

Anunciaciones

Exilio (Spanish Edition)