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Seven Trees Against the Dying Light
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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Description for Seven Trees Against the Dying Light
Paperback. Includes an introduction with an ecocritical focus, as well as complete notes on botanical, historical, mythological, and socio-political references. Translator(s): Greg, Simon; White, Steven F. Series: Avant-garde & Modernism Collection. Num Pages: 104 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
Standing against the visible landscape - the mountainous volcanoes, the jungles and savannahs - the seven trees conjured in these narrative poems by one of Latin America's masters also evoke another, more mysterious terrain. It is this other landscape, as invisible as poetry before it is written down but etched by history and animated by the collective memory of a people, that speaks through Pablo Antonio Cuadra's ""Seven Trees"". Storing experience as they exist, these tree-poems conserve local soil and memory in the place they inhabit. They are figures of life, stained by seawater and gun powder, by the bright ... Read more
Standing against the visible landscape - the mountainous volcanoes, the jungles and savannahs - the seven trees conjured in these narrative poems by one of Latin America's masters also evoke another, more mysterious terrain. It is this other landscape, as invisible as poetry before it is written down but etched by history and animated by the collective memory of a people, that speaks through Pablo Antonio Cuadra's ""Seven Trees"". Storing experience as they exist, these tree-poems conserve local soil and memory in the place they inhabit. They are figures of life, stained by seawater and gun powder, by the bright ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Avant-garde & Modernism Collection
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810124745
SKU
V9780810124745
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About Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002) is Nicaragua's most prominent vanguardista, an author who defined his poetics in the 1920s and 1930s. His work was first translated into English by Thomas Merton. Cuadra was nominated by his country for the Nobel Prize for literature twice and received numerous literary honors, including the prestigious Gabriela Mistral Prize from the Organization of American States. ... Read more
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