Bilingual printing of Mexican award-winning poet's works with pervasive themes of time, poetry and identity often viewed in historical contexts, including meditations on animals such as mosquitoes and elephants

Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems, 1964-1968 (English and Spanish Edition)

Pacheco, José Emilio

Columbia Univ. Pr.

An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Jose Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions - sometimes comic, often tragic - of the human condition. His Album de zoologia, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche - cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share.

Literature & Fiction

TOLEDO, FRANCISCO

Peden, Margaret Sayers

Esquinca, Jorge

Poetry

Univ of Texas Pr

If a picture paints a thousand words, a poem can evoke a thousand images. In this illustrated, bilingual volume of poetry, two of Mexico's most prominent artists, poet and painter, join their words and images of animals to create a work of startling insight and beauty. José Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions of the human condition. His Album de zoología, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche--cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share. Francisco Toledo, acknowledged as Mexico's foremost painter, also creates ceramics, tapestries, graphics, frescoes, and sculpture. His art is erotic, exuberant, and vital--rich with figures from nature, no few of which are drawn from the millenary Zapotec culture of his forebears. In An Ark for the Next Millennium, Toledo's arresting black-and-white drawings are the visual expression of Pacheco's wise, foolish, besieged, threatening, and threatened animals--our brothers and sisters on this imperiled planet.

University of Texas Press

Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City. Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed.

Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

Silver, Katherine

United States

New Directions

Selected Poems

This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in "the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods." A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's left to ponder "how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness." When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: "So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel Alemán's regime," with "the face of El Senor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse." Sound familiar? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos cherishes for his friend's young mother, which has the effect of driving the general cruelties further under the reader's skin. The acclaimed translator Katherine Silver has greatly revised her original translation, enlivening afresh this remarkable work.

Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition)

The leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations. The first, "City of Memory," touches on Pacheco's major literary obsessions: the destructive effects of time; the essential egotism and cruelty of the natural world, with humankind at its violent center; and the capacity of the human spirit to achieve transcendence. The second, "I watch the Earth," is an emotional catharsis, the poet's mediation on the tragic earthquake that devastated his native Mexico City in 1985. Together, these poems paint a vivid picture of the noble beauty and uncontrollable tragedy that is Mexico-and the world-today. "One of Mexico's foremost writers, Pacheco (b. 1939) divides his time between the University of Maryland and Mexico's National Institute of History and Anthropology. His poetic voice is straightforward and epigrammatic ("No beauty can match/ the leaf as it withers and falls to the earth") and his style spare and clean." —Book Verdict "There is simply no kind of poem Pacheco did not write: lyrics, lyric sequences, narratives, philosophical verse, satires—all humble and humbling in their directness and lack of both theoretical jargon and political cant."—Joseph Hutchison

City of Memory and Other Poems (Spanish Edition)

City Lights Publishers

Signals from the Flames (Discoveries)

Latin American Literary Review Press

Tarde o temprano es la historia viva de una de las voces poéticas más originales de habla hispana. A esta nueva edición se suman los títulos Los trabajos del mar, Miro la tierra, Ciudad de la memoria, El silencio de la luna, La arena errante y Siglo pasado. Los textos encierran la compleja singularidad de la visión del autor, su relación con las cosas y con el lenguaje. Es claro ejemplo de la obra que obtiene autonomía más allá de su creador convirtiéndose en eco profundo de la existencia humana.

Tarde o temprano (Poemas 1958-2009) (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Las batallas en el desierto (Novel) / Battles in the Desert (A Novel) (Spanish Edition)

Planeta Publishing

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Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems, 1964-1968 (English and Spanish Edition)

An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

Selected Poems

Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition)

City of Memory and Other Poems (Spanish Edition)

Signals from the Flames (Discoveries)

Tarde o temprano (Poemas 1958-2009) (Spanish Edition)

Las batallas en el desierto (Novel) / Battles in the Desert (A Novel) (Spanish Edition)