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Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros
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Paperback. Presents an English-language translation of the ill-fated Uruguyan erotic poet Delmira Agustini. This book presents a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven. Editor(s): Caceres, Alejandro. Translator(s): Caceres, Alejandro. Num Pages: 264 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
This title presents the first English-language translation of the ill-fated Uruguyan erotic poet Delmira Agustini.This graceful translation and bilingual edition, now in paperback, is the first to bring English readers a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven. Translated by native Uruguayan Alejandro Caceres and including work from each of Agustini's four published books, ""Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros"" is a response to a resurgent interest not just in the poems but in the passionate and daring woman behind them and the social ... Read more
This title presents the first English-language translation of the ill-fated Uruguyan erotic poet Delmira Agustini.This graceful translation and bilingual edition, now in paperback, is the first to bring English readers a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven. Translated by native Uruguayan Alejandro Caceres and including work from each of Agustini's four published books, ""Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros"" is a response to a resurgent interest not just in the poems but in the passionate and daring woman behind them and the social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328680
SKU
V9780809328680
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99-1
About
Alejandro Caceres, an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and has lived in the United States since 1977. He is the editor of the definitive critical edition of the complete poems of Delmira Agustini, published in Montevideo, Uruguay by Ediciones de la Plaza in ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros
"Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros provides a masterful introduction to the life and works of Delmira Agustini. Even more importantly, through its thoughtfully executed translations, the English-speaking public is afforded, for the first time, access to the complex and sophisticated poetry that turned Agustini into a celebrity during her lifetime and a role model for generations to ... Read more