<p>Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Anna Deeny. "In FLOATING LANTERNS, her eighth poetry collection, Mercedes Roffé draws from a range of creation myths, sacred texts, philosophy and poetry that meditates upon human nature and our propensity for evil. She brings together Buddhism, Tibetan Yoga, the Judeo-Christian Bible, the Kabbalah, Plato's Republic, T. S. Eliot, Beat poets, the oral traditions of Medieval Spain, and Native North American cosmogonies. What binds these diverse materials is Roffé's use of anaphora. Through anaphora Roffé recalls the process of language building in the face of destruction. When catastrophes level cities, bodies and our loved ones, language too is leveled in our screams. However… poetic techniques can remind us of our subjective capacity to construct language again. They offer the possibility, or at least the hope, that a broken language, and from there the broken body, might also be remembered whole even if it is never to be recuperated."—Anna Deeny<br><br> Anna Deeny has translated poetry by Raúl Zurita, Mercedes Roffé, Alejandra Pizarnik, Amanda Berenguer, Nicanor Parra, Gabriela Mistral, Idea Vilariño, Marosa di Giorgio and Malú Urriola. She is the editor and translator of Sky Below, a volume of selected works by Zurita, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. She has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Deeny is currently writing a book about sound, poetry, and translation.</p>

Floating Lanterns

Literature & Fiction

Mercedes Roffe

Poetry

Shearsman Books

Considered one of the most remarkable voices in current Argentinean poetry, Mercedes Roffé reaffirms this position in this book, using music as a way to return to the written word. Taken from the opera composed by the Chinese musician Tan Dun, this title leads us into a fantastic journey around the world of music (from Bach to Gorecki, from Hildegard von Bingen to Arvo Pärt), and through the world of painting (Odilon Redon, los Nabis, Remedios Varo).

La Opera Fantasma (Spanish Edition)

BAJO LA LUNA

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Floating Lanterns

La Opera Fantasma (Spanish Edition)