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A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands (Paperback)
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A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands (Paperback)
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Loot Price R446
Discovery Miles 4 460
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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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