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Selected Poetry Delmira Agustini - Poetics of Eros (Paperback, Reissue)
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Selected Poetry Delmira Agustini - Poetics of Eros (Paperback, Reissue)
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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
and political world she inhabited.Delmira Agustini was born in
Montevideo, Uruguay, on October 24, 1886 to wealthy parents of
German and Italian descent. She published her first volume of
poetry when she was twenty-one and followed with two more in the
next six years: the fourth volume was a posthumous publication. Her
life was cut short in 1914, when Enrique Job Reyes, her ex-husband,
shot her to death and then turned the gun on himself.Carefully
selected for this bilingual, en face edition, the poems collected
here track and highlight Agustini's development and strengths as an
artist - including her methods of experimentation, first relying on
modernista forms and later abandoning them - and her focus on the
figure of the male, which she portrays as the crux of devotion and
attention but deems ultimately unreachable. Caceres' introduction
presents biographical information and situates Agustini's work and
life in a larger political, historical, and literary context,
particularly the modernismo movement, whose followers broke
linguistic and political ties with the pathos and excesses of
romanticism.
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