City of Memory and Other Poems

Name: City of Memory and Other Poems
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ISBN: 9780872863248

ISBN-10: 0872863247

ISBN-13: 9780872863248

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Authors: Jose Emilio Pacheco, Cynthia Steele, Josï¿½ Emilio Pacheco

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Translator's Preface



Introduction



Sea Snail


Two Poems on Sligo Creek I. The Stream


Two Poems on Sligo Creek II. Frost


Hamletian


Salt


Cesar Vallejo


Bogota


Raindrop


A Dog's Life


Paper from Old Rags


The Twentieth-Centurians


Certainty


Couples


The Magic of Criticism


Ashes


Bend in the Ajusco Mountain


The Island Garden


Sun Shower


Song of the Willow


Hailstorm


All Our Yesterdays


The Wretched of the Earth


For You


A Farewell to Arms


Sunday Light


Walter Benjamin Leaves Paris (1940)


Becquer and Rilke Meet in Seville


Pottery from Colima


The Defenseless


Southern Seas


The Enemy


In Passing


The Knife


Live Bait


The Ruins of Mexico (Elegy of the Return)


Lamentations


Praises


The Names of Evil: The Salamander


The Names of Evil: Cain


The Names of Evil: Rites and Ceremonies


The Names of Evil: Baroque Altar