Dominican Republic, tr Cohen & Walsh, bilingual

Countersong to Walt Whitman & Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Mir, Pedro

Poetry

Azul Editions

Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems is the only book-length collection of Mir's poetry in English translation. The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s.

Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems: A Bilingual Edition, Translated by Jonathan Cohen & Donald D. Walsh (Caribbean Modern Classics) (Spanish Edition)

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

Jonathan Cohen's translation of Poemas de buen amor... y a veces de fantasía shows another side entirely of Mir's work to that seen in Contracanto a Walt Whitman / Countersong to Walt Whitman: intensely political in the Countersong, sensual and erotic in Poems of Good Love. There is a challenge that the translator rises to in making English language poems that are truthful to the deliberately opaquer language of this collection in comparison to the communicative clarity of Mir's more overtly political collections. Here, Mir sets himself the task of writing about love in a way that is truthful to the Marxist historical materialism he embraced, in contrast to what he saw as the conventions of love poetry where love is seen as some kind of disembodied spiritual experience. As the introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant makes clear, there were negatives as well as positives that followed from the task Mir set himself. It is obvious that fifty years ago (1969), feminism had not yet penetrated Mir's Latin American Marxism.

Poems of Good Love... and Sometimes Fantasy: Poemas de buen amor... y a veces de fantasia, Translated by Jonathan Cohen (Caribbean Modern Classics) (Spanish Edition)

“Pedro Mir . . . Pure genius.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Pedro Mir (1913–2000) is recognized as the Dominican Republic’s foremost literary figure of the twentieth century. In 1982 the Dominican Congress named him National Poet. On the occasion of his death, the president of the Dominican Republic declared three days of national mourning and celebrated the poet’s memory and his work: “Don Pedro will always be with us because his thinking was transcendent, and he truly fathomed the national Dominican soul.” 
“Hurricane Neruda” won the Annual Poetry Award given by the Secretary of Education of the Dominican Republic, in 1975, the year of the poem’s original publication. This elegy was written in response to the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) and the military dictatorship that followed the coup in Chile and the associated death of its democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, twelve days before the poet died, possibly murdered. 
“To Julia with No Tears,” written in 1998, is Mir’s last published poem. This elegy celebrates Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) who gave voice to her native island and its struggle for independence. A feminist in word and deed, she also spoke up for Afro-Caribbean writers. She furthered the cultural and socio-political cause of all Caribbean peoples, and for her profound contribution to this cause, she became significant to Mir. 
“With his deft and lyrical translation of Two Elegies of Hope by Pedro Mir, Jonathan Cohen brings a powerful trinity of poets to English readers: Pablo Neruda and Julia de Burgos, as elegized by our very own Whitman of the Caribbean, Pedro Mir. More and more North American readers are learning about the work of Mir who sang of our island and illuminated our struggles over the course of many dislocations. His fierce and profound singing of those struggles has inspired many writers and activists from our part of the Americas, myself included. Cohen translates Mir’s words as if there were no borders between the two languages and sensibilities all occupying the same human heart, and Chiqui Vicioso’s succinct and informed introduction helps us understand the importance of Mir’s work in understanding our American history, its struggles, tragedies and its ultimate triumph through the work of our poets. How wonderful to share—through Cohen’s poet’s sensibilities and skill—nuestro Pedro Mir with the English-speaking world. I feel immense pride in the arrival of this small but powerful book to an English readership.” Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Two Elegies of Hope: Hurricane Neruda & To Julia with No Tears

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

El gerente exitoso obtiene su formación de dos grandes fuentes: la práctica acumulada de experiencia profesional y el tiempo dedicado al aprendizaje formal en la universidad. En medio de un ambiente empresarial dinámico y competitivo, líderes y empresarios deben preocuparse cada día por desarrollar, perfeccionar y ampliar sus competencias gerenciales pues estas son generadoras de ventajas competitivas para su desempeño profesional y las empresas donde trabajan. Este libro pretende convertirse en un material de apoyo y reflexión sobre las competencias gerenciales, que incluyen los rasgos, los motivos, la imagen personal, los valores y el rol social del individuo en la sociedad. La obra presenta los conceptos más aceptados sobre las competencias gerenciales, describe cada una de las competencias que caracterizan a un buen directivo y las analiza desde el punto de vista de su evaluación. En esta segunda edición se han agregado estudios de caso y ejercicios prácticos al final de cada capítulo. Empresarios, profesores, estudiantes y aquellos interesados en liderazgo, motivación y gestión de empresas tienen aquí un libro de referencia sobre la importancia de poseer y usar sus conocimientos para ejercer una gerencia exitosa. La obra es útil también para estudiantes de carreras como Administración de Empresas, Psicología y Comunicación Social.

Competencias gerenciales: Habilidades, Conocimientos Y Aptitudes (Spanish Edition)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Ecoe Ediciones

La obra poética reunida de un gran autor latinoamericano, el poeta dominicano Pedro Mir (San Pedro de Macorís, 3 de junio de 1913-Santo Domingo, 11 de julio del 2000).

Poesía Completa: Edición de Miguel D. Mena (Biblioteca de las Letras Dominicanas) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Cielonaranja

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