Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas &amp; Mauricio Espinoza. "Travelers to Costa Rica often depart the capital of San José as soon as they arrive, heading out for the cloud forest of Monteverde, the volcano at Arenal, or the waves at Playa Tamarindo, leaving behind the smell of diesel fumes and the city's concrete architecture. But if you visit the National Theater, a civic treasure modeled on the Paris Opera, you will find a bronze statue guarding the building, the bust of a woman with a fierce, penetrating gaze, and hair of Medusa—like serpents: the mother of Costa Rican verse and the country's most significant international literary presence, Nuestra Eunice, as she's been called, the poet Eunice Odio. Her poetry has thus remained almost wholly unknown to readers outside Latin America, obscured on the margins of the region's avant-garde and proletarian-poet traditions. A woman poet who lived a secluded life, Odio was born in a country with, at the time, an antipathy to artists and writers, who often relocated to Mexico City if they wanted to establish themselves as contributors to the vanguard. Odio herself was aware of her marginalized, self-exiled position. Octavio Paz once told her that she was "of that line of poets who invent their own mythology, like Blake, like St. John Perse, like Ezra Pound; and they are rubbed out, because no one understands them until years or even centuries after their death."—Keith Ekiss, from the Introduction

Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio

Literature & Fiction

Odio, Eunice

Poetry

The Bitter Oleander Press

Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas, and Mauricio Espinoza. Eunice Odio published her epic poem THE FIRE'S JOURNEY (El tránsito de fuego) in 1957, and it is now available in English translation for the first time. A much-neglected masterpiece of 20th-century Latin American poetry, the poem imagines the world as the word of God. Using a mixture of surrealism, narrative, and dialogue, the story follows the journey of Ion, the poet-god who enters the universe to battle the Void, the force of chaos that threatens to cast the world into darkness. Drawing on traditions from Genesis to Paradise Lost, Odio's THE FIRE'S JOURNEY is a poem about the sacred power of language and the fate of the poet in the world. Tavern Books will publish the entirety of THE FIRE'S JOURNEY in four volumes.

The Fire's Journey (Part 1: Integration of the Parents)

Tavern Books

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas, and Mauricio Espinoza. "Sleep not, sleep not, live in vigilance…" Eunice Odio continues her epic poem on language and the fate of the poet with THE FIRE'S JOURNEY (PART II: CREATION OF MYSELF). Risking the entirety of existence in his quest to counter the forces of chaos, the poet- hero Ion assumes bodily form and enters the world to battle the Void, the emblem of darkness. Along the way, he's joined by Dedalus, the master labyrinth-builder who guides the poet on his travels and warns Ion of the trials ahead. A much-neglected masterpiece of 20th- century Latin American poetry, THE FIRE'S JOURNEY will be published by Tavern Books in an English translation across four volumes.

The Fire's Journey (Part II: Creation of Myself)

Poetry. Drama. Latinx Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas, and Mauricio Espinoza. After the chaos of the first two volumes of THE FIRE'S JOURNEY, where the world was formless and void yet teeming with the shape of life to come, and Ion the poet-hero took mortal form to battle the Void, in Part III we begin to encounter a landscape that looks more like the one we know today. Ion has entered the world. A much-neglected masterpiece of 20th-century Latin American poetry, THE FIRE'S JOURNEY will be published by Tavern Books in an English translation for the first time across four volumes.

The Fire's Journey (Part III: The Cathedral's Work)

Poetry. Drama. Latinx Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas, and Mauricio Espinoza. "After the flowering of a day's journey, / clover abandons the perfume's tribe / and in winter stretches out greenly. / Am I more than clover, or less than space?..." Volume III of THE FIRE'S JOURNEY concludes with Ion supervising the construction and reconstruction of a great cathedral, the house of light designed to repel the Void. What remains for Ion in Volume IV is to celebrate his victory over Chaos, to seek recognition as "the maker of all things," and to pass along the sacred word to humankind. In The Return, we quickly realize that Ion is not alone in the world as a maker. Odio introduces a minor pantheon of gods from diverse religions, and her own invention, who accompany Ion and Dedalus on their way to the celebration. Together, they advance toward the city in anticipation of a celebration of all things. "The cardinal virtue of Eunice Odio's works is their exceptional quality, immersed in a captivating and evocative atmosphere that rewards sensitive souls with inner experiences that open up into wide horizons. Her masterpiece, the magnificent metaphysical poem 'El tránsito de fuego,' is one of the greatest works of poetry of all time."--Peggy von Mayer Chaves

The Fire's Journey (Part IV: The Return) (Fire's Journey, 4)

El tránsito de fuego (Spanish Edition)

Vaso Roto Ediciones S.L

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