Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems

by David Huerta, Mark Schafer (Translator)

Overview

First English-language collection of David Huerta; includes the premier translation from his masterpiece, Incurable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556592874
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Series:	Lannan Literary Selections
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

David Huerta is widely regarded as Mexico's finest living poet. He is the author of 25 books of poems, a political columnist for Proceso, and a professor of literature at UNAM. In 2006 he was awarded the prestigious Xavier Villarrutia Prize for lifelong contributions to Mexican literature. Schafer is the translator of numerous books of poetry and fiction from Latin America, including the prose of Eduardo Galeano, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, and Jesus Gardea and the poetry of Gloria Gervitz, Alberto Blanco, and many others. He lives in Boston.

Editorial Reviews

"David Huerta's verses...are ornate, cerebral, bookish, apocalyptic to the point of abstraction."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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