A landmark collection of poetry by one of Latin America’s most important living writers. The celebrated writer Álvaro Mutis envied new readers of Ida Vitale’s poetry: “unexpected pleasures await them.” Time Without Keys: Selected Poems is the first volume of Vitale’s illustrious poetry to appear in the US. The selection spans seventy-five years and the wonders within abound―the skies over Montevideo, falconry, the saxifrage’s bloom, gratitude for the alphabet and summer―as do urgent questions about our relationship with the world. How does our perception of time shape history, as well as our social and political constructs? Vitale’s poetic and human vitality have made her a storied figure in the Spanish language and beyond; her writing revered for being classic and modern, precise and lucid, intellectually challenging and rich in tradition. This bilingual edition, presented in reverse chronological order, offers the reader both a wide range of Vitale’s most beloved poems, as well as a wealth of recent work. The translator Sarah Pollack, Vitale’s first translator into English, has written an informative afterword about Vitale’s life and work.

Time Without Keys: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Vitale, Ida

Poetry

New Directions

Garden of Silica is the first poetry anthology of the Uruguayan Ida Vitale to appear in English, spanning eight books published from 1960 to the present. Her work seeks a balance between subjectivity and objectivity, privileges intellectual capacity above that of sentimentality, and requires an active reader. Placing the intellectual subject at the forefront, Vitale's poetry offers one of the most provocative representations of women's subjectivity in the Spanish language.

Garden of Silica (Earthworks)

Salt Publishing

A revised edition of the publisher's inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, stories, essays and interviews with over 30 women writers, both emerging authors and luminaries of contemporary literature such as:A.S. Byatt, Saskia Calliste, April De Angelis, Kit de Waal, Carol Ann Duffy, Sian Evans, Philippa Gregory, Mary Hamer, Jackie Kay, Shuchi Kothari, Bryony Lavery, Annee Lawrence, Roseanne Liang, Suchen Christine Lim, Jackie McCarrick, Laura Miles, Raman Mundair, Magda Oldziejewska, Kaite O'Reilly, Jacqueline Pepall, Gabi Reigh, Djamila Ribeiro, Fiona Rintoul, Jasvinder Sanghera, Anne Sebba, Kalista Sy, Debbie Taylor, Madeleine Thien, Claire Tomalin, Ida Vitale, Sarah Waters and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -Emma Woolf.Together with the original writing workshops plus black and white illustrations. Guest editor Ann Sandham has compiled the new collection to celebrate Aurora Metro's 30th anniversary as an independent publisher; 20% of profits will to go to the Virginia Woolf statue campaign in the UK.

The Women Writers' Handbook

GREGORY, PHILIPPA

KAY, JACKIE

BYATT, A.S.

Ribeiro, Djamila

Duffy, Carol Ann

Woolf, Emma

LIm, Suchen Christine

Teen & Young Adult

Aurora Metro Books

"a story’s existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage, just barely latent, emits vague but urgent emanations." 
Byobu's every interaction trembles with possibility and faint menace. A crack in the walls of his house, marring it forever, means he must burn it down. A stoplight asks what the value of obedience is, what hopefulness it contains, and what insensible anarchy it defies. In brief episodes, aphorisms, and moments of spiritual turbulence and gentle scrutiny, reside a wealth of habits, worries, curiosities, pleasures, peculiarities, and efforts to understand. 
Representative of the modesty and complexity of Ida Vitale’s poetic universe, Byobu flushes the world with meaning and playfully offers another way of inhabiting the every day.

Byobu

United States

Charco Press

Tras la publicación de su Poesía reunida en 2018, el nuevo libro de una autora esencial en la literatura en lengua castellana. Los nuevos versos, lúcidos y precisos, tersos y sagaces, de una poeta deslumbrante. La admiración ante la vida y los objetos cargados de historia, la percepción del tiempo y del advenimiento de la vejez, la rememoración de los seres perdidos, Ida Vitale nos ofrece en este Tiempo sin claves el libro culminante de su trayectoria. Y desde la altura de sus 98 años, nos demuestra que es la poeta más joven de la literatura española. 
Tras la publicación de su Poesía reunida en 2018, el nuevo libro de una autora esencial en la literatura en lengua castellana. Los nuevos versos, lúcidos y precisos, tersos y sagaces, de una poeta deslumbrante. La admiración ante la vida y los objetos cargados de historia, la percepción del tiempo y del advenimiento de la vejez, la rememoración de los seres perdidos, Ida Vitale nos ofrece en este Tiempo sin claves el libro culminante de su trayectoria. Y desde la altura de sus 98 años, nos demuestra que es la poeta más joven de la literatura española. 
El gran poeta colombiano Álvaro Mutis envidiaba al lector que se adentrara en la obra de Ida Vitale, pues "le espera un placer que no se sospecha".

Tiempo sin claves

Tusquets Editores S.A.

De plantas y animales

Mella y criba

Editorial Pre-Textos

El abc de Byobu

Genre Fiction

Adamaramada Ediciones

Cerca de cien: Antología poética

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