Hatchet / Hamartia
A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved. One with strong personality and the double capacity of playing with language and using it as a mirror of the Mexican reality, sometimes violent, with memorable lines and reflections of great depth.
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Hatchet / Hamartia
A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved. One with strong personality and the double capacity of playing with language and using it as a mirror of the Mexican reality, sometimes violent, with memorable lines and reflections of great depth.
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Hatchet / Hamartia

Hatchet / Hamartia

Hatchet / Hamartia

Hatchet / Hamartia

Overview

A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved. One with strong personality and the double capacity of playing with language and using it as a mirror of the Mexican reality, sometimes violent, with memorable lines and reflections of great depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781945680397
Publisher: White Pine Press
Publication date: 10/27/2020
Pages: 102
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carmen Boullosa is the author of twelve volumes of poetry and eighteen novels. Her work has been translated into ten different languages including several books in English. She divides her time between Mexico City and New York, where she is a professor at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) writes in both Spanish and English and has published over 100 books in many different genres–including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and comics–and for both children and adults. In addition to his own writing, he is a prolific literary translator. He has lived in Madrid, Spain since 1999. Recent book translations into English include the poetry collections: Correspondences: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish LGBT Poetry (Egales), Destruction of the Lover by Luis Panini (Pleiades Press, 2019), Impure Acts by Ángelo Néstore (Indolent Books, 2019), and I Offer My Heart as a Target by Johanny Vazquez Paz (Akashic, 2019).

Table of Contents

I

Hacha 14

Axe 15

Perder, perder 16

Losing, Losing 17

Estripe 18

Lineage 19

Vejez 20

Old Age 21

La voz de la muerte 22

The Voice of Death 23

Microondas 24

Microwave 25

El partido 30

The Match 31

…eso que me devora cuando no escribo… 36

…What Devours Me When I Don't Write… 37

Lluvia seca 38

Dry Rain 39

La sopa 40

Soup 41

Dos deseos 42

Two Desires 43

La casa del Amor 44

The House of Love 45

En la sala 46

In the Room 47

Napoleón actor 48

Enacting Napolean 49

Lanzas 50

Spears 51

Nariz 52

Nose 53

Barriga 54

Belly 55

Vagabundo 56

Tramp 57

Niño en el metro 58

Child in the Metro 59

El Tren 60

The Train 61

La mosca panteonera 62

The Carrion Fly 63

Estrella muerta 68

Dead Star 69

La ilusión de la piedra 70

The Illusion of the Stone 71

Todo se rompe 72

Everything Breaks 73

El vino 74

The Wine 75

Los árboles 76

The Trees 77

El Puy de Dôme 78

The Puy de Dôme 79

II

Cruzando la cordillera en tren 82

Crossing the Mountains by Train 83

III

Variaciones de miriñaque 96

Crinoline Variations 97

IV

Triángulo de las Bermudas 106

Bermuda Triangle 107

The Author 110

The Translator 110

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