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A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands (Paperback) Loot Price: R446
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A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands (Paperback): Antonio Cisneros

A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands (Paperback)

Antonio Cisneros; Translated by William Rowe

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A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands (Un crucero a las Islas Galapagos) was the last book published by Antonio Cisneros before his death in 2012. The book has the subtitle, New Marian Songs (nuevos cantos marianos) and consists of 25 prose poems that invoke the Virgin as protector in danger, not in order to escape from fear but so as to traverse the zones of greatest anxiety, without turning the gaze away from catastrophe. The themes of shipwreck, illness, and death occur alongside intense alertness of the skin to the prick of an insulin injection, the feel of salt on things that flash through the slit of a skirt, or the body sensitized to the prickle of a woolly blanket on a hot night. This absolute physical aliveness causes the image of the Virgin to give way to a shipwrecked man's vision of a bar with pints of beer coming towards him over the sea. The journey to the fabled Galapagos Islands, where of course Darwin discovered the secret of the history of flesh, is both physical and symbolic. The book is a celebration of life by a man approaching his own death, a last gift to the world. Lima and its beaches, Peruvian Amazonia and its animals, France and Virginia, the poet's daughters and grandchildren, also appear, marking intense joy at the borders of catastrophe.

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Imprint: Shearsman Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2013
First published: October 2013
Authors: Antonio Cisneros
Translators: William Rowe
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 978-1-84861-269-3
Subtitles: Spanish
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
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LSN: 1-84861-269-9
Barcode: 9781848612693

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