The American debut of Basque writer Kirmen Uribe's "simple, devastating poems" (Bob Holman)
Whenever we're saddened everything looks dark, When we're heartened, again, the world crumbles. Every one of us keeps forever someone else's hidden side, If it's a secret, if a mistake, if a gesture. ―from "May"
Kirmen Uribe has become one of the best-known Basque-language writers―an important contemporary voice from a vital but largely unknown language. Meanwhile Take My Hand presents Uribe's poetry to American readers in both the original and in the poet Elizabeth Macklin's skillful and award-winning translations.
In these poems are the drug addicts of Spanish fishing towns, the paved-over rivers of urbanized medieval cities, the remains of loving relationships, whether entirely uprooted or making do with a companionable silence. The Basque phrase Bitartean heldu eskutik, which became the book's title―Meanwhile Take My Hand―Uribe has said is "what you say when there's nothing at all you can say."

Meanwhile Take My Hand

Literature & Fiction

Uribe, Kirmen

Poetry

Graywolf Press

On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history--the inspiration for the novel he wants to write--and ponders how the sea has shaped their stories. The day he knew he was going to die, our narrator's grandfather took his daughter-in-law to the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao, the de facto capital of the Basque region of northern Spain, to show her a painting with ties to their family. Years later, her son Kirmen traces those ties back through the decades, knotting together moments from early twentieth-century art history with the stories of his ancestors' fishing adventures--and tragedies--in the North Atlantic Ocean. Elegant, fluid storytelling is punctuated by scenes from Kirmen's flight, from security line to airport bar to jet cabin, and reflections on the creative writing process. This original and compelling novel earned debut author Kirmen Uribe the prestigious National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009. Exquisitely translated from Basque to English by Elizabeth Macklin, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao skillfully captures the intersections of many journeys: past and present, physical and artistic, complete and still unfolding. Bilbao-New York-Bilbao is the second book commissioned for the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. The series investigates the ways we activate space through language. In the tradition of Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Spatial Species titles are pocket-sized editions, each keenly focused on place. Instead of tourist spots and public squares, we encounter unmarked, noncanonical spaces: edges, alleyways, diasporic traces. Such intimate journeying requires experiments in language and genre, moving travelogue, fiction, or memoir into something closer to eating, drinking, and dreaming.

Bilbao–New York–Bilbao (Spatial Species)

Literary

Coffee House Press

When Liborio Uribe found that he was going to die, he wanted to once again see a painting by Aurelio Arteta, his wife’s father. Liborio had spent his entire life at sea, like his son José, living out unforgettable adventures that fade into obscurity. Years later, faced with the same painting, Liborio’s grandson Kirmen, a writer and poet, uses these family stories to write a novel. Bilbao - New York - Bilbao takes place during a flight to New York and tells the story of journeys of three generations of the same family. Through letters, diaries, e-mails, poems, and dictionaries, it creates a mosaic of memories and stories that form an homage to a world that has almost disappeared, as well as a hymn to the continuity of life. A novel, it is also a reflection on the art of writing, and lies between life and fiction.

Bilbao New York Bilbao

Seren

Saddle up folks for a wild ride along the trail in the company of the famed Basque gunslinger Garmendia and his traveling partner Amalio. As well-known as Billy the Kid, Jesse James, or Wyatt Earp back in the day, in this first book of the Garmendia trilogy, our hero is framed for murder and pursued by evil Tidy Harry–who runs Clean City–and his henchmen Rat and Bat. Will Garmendia survive? And who is the mysterious Black Rider? Authored by the celebrated Basque poet and novelist Kirmen Uribe and with illustrations by Mikel Valverde, Garmendia’s story brings the Old West to life!

Garmendia and the Black Rider

Center for Basque Studies

La casa del poeta

Palomas, Alejandro

Pérez-Sauquillo, Vanesa

Peri Rossi, Cristina

Cebrián, Mercedes

Margarit, Joan

Barba, Andrés

Merino, Ana

CASTRO, LUISA

Clark, Ben

Adón, Pilar

Pérez López, María Ángeles

Néstore, Ángelo

García Valdés, Olvido

LANSEROS, RAQUEL

Gamoneda, Antonio

Moreno, Lara

Rossetti, Ana

Batres, Izara

Astur, Manuel

Caballero Bonald, José Manuel

Juaristi, Jon

Díaz-Pimienta, Alexis

Brines, Francisco

García Faet, Berta

Conejero, Alberto

Novo, Olga

Salas, Ada

Peyrou, Mariano

Lucas, Antonio

Sanz, María

Campos, Joaquín

Lostalé, Javier

González Rossi, Aida

Linares, Abelardo

Cid, Alba

Santamaría, Alberto

Oseguera, Ale

Simón Partal, Alejandro

Brezmes, Alfonso

García Núñez, Alicia

Guzmán, Almudena

Bautista, Amalia

Iglesias Serna, Amalia

Castro, Ana

Gorría, Ana

Pérez Cañamares, Ana

Vidal Egea, Ana

Sudón, Andrés

Segovia, Ángela

Serna, Ángela

Martí, Arturo

Luque, Aurora

Asensio, Carlos

Camacho, Carmen

Molina, Constantino

Sarrión, David

Escoffet, Eduard

Marínez, Erika

Espinosa, Estíbaliz

Escarpa, Gonzalo

Hermo, Gonzalo

Larretxea, Hasier

Ge, Jesús

Klimt, Annita

Ferrando, Bartolomé

Altaió, Gerard

Vega, Gustavo

Interventaria

Ferrer, Isidro

Cardosa, Juan

Moranta, Manuel

Carver, Mara

Carrió, Pep

Proyecto Genoma Poético

Blasco, Susana

Payeras, Joan

Pérez Azaústre, Joaquín

García, José Daniel

Parra, Josefa

Pedrals, Josep

Mestre, Juan Carlos

Aguilar, Juan Domingo

Rivero, Juan F.

Gallego Benot, Juan

Maqués, Juan

Piera, Julia

Valero, Julieta

Iribarren, Karmelo

Murua, Kepa

López, Lara

Laura Casielles

Bilbao, Leire

Romero, Manolo

Massanet, Mª Antònia

Eloy García, María

Llamero, Maribel Andrés

Alonso, Martha Asunción

d'Ors, Miguel

Calafell, Mireia

Trampa Ediciones

Bilbao-New York-Bilbao

Contemporary

Seix-Barral

Lo que mueve el mundo, de Kirmen Uribe, autor de otras obras como Bilbao-New York-Bilbao (Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2009) o Mientras tanto cógeme la mano (Premio de la Crítica 2007 por el PEN American Center), es una novela de narrativa española que nos narra una historia de exilio contada con la sensibili

Lo que mueve el mundo

Barcelona. 23 cm. 446 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca breve'. Uribe, Kirmen 1970-. Traducción del euskera por J. M. Isasi. Título original: Elkarrekin esnatzeko ordua. Isasi Urdangarin, J. 1970-. traductor .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-322-2977-0

La hora de despertarnos juntos

Según las creencias de los primeros vascos, aquellos que se enamoraban de las lamias, seres mitológicos de apariencia similar a la de las sirenas, se convertían en delfines. Era el precio que debían pagar por su atrevimiento. Un cambio radical que acontecía de la noche a la mañana, como el inicio de un viaje a un destino incierto. De forma parecida, la vida de los migrantes también cambia cuando cruzan la frontera de su país y, una vez emprendido, el camino se vuelve otro, muy diferente al imaginado. 
Por las páginas de La vida anterior de los delfines se cruzan tres historias: el destino del libro inacabado que la feminista Edith Wynner dedicó a Rosika Schwimmer, activista, pacifista y sufragista nominada en varias ocasiones al premio Nobel de la Paz, así como la relación entre estas dos mujeres extraordinarias durante la primera mitad del siglo XX; las vivencias de una familia vasca emigrante en el Nueva York actual con el trasfondo político y social del tormentoso fin de la era Trump, y las reminiscencias de la amistad entre dos niñas en el pequeño pueblo costero donde el narrador creció junto a un grupo de mujeres revolucionarias en los años setenta y ochenta. 
Apasionante, tierna y poética, llena de secretos por descubrir, deliciosamente escrita y terriblemente humana, La vida anterior de los delfines es la novela más ambiciosa de Kirmen Uribe, donde vuelve a mezclar de forma magistral historia familiar, acontecimientos históricos y la magia del folclore y las historias populares vascas.

La vida anterior de los delfines

Genre Fiction

Barcelona. 19 cm. 207 p., [1] h. pleg. de lám. col. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Novela', numero coleccion(2337). Uribe, Kirmen 1970-. Traducción del euskera por Ana Arregi. Título original: Bilbao-New York-Bilbao. En la portada: Seix Barral. Novela (Booket (Editorial)). 2337 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-322-5092-7

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