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Beyond the Sea (English, Spanish, Paperback)
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Beyond the Sea (English, Spanish, Paperback)
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Loot Price R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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Beyond the Sea brings together two book-length sequences first
published in Mexico in the early years of the century, both taking
their origins from Greece, a matter of central importance for the
poet for many years. Fittingly, for subject-matter thoroughly
drenched in the Greek past, the poems are odes and dithyrambs, with
the spirit of one sequence being Apollonian, while the other is
Dionysian. The gods are there, and imagery that has echoed across
the centuries is here transposed into a limpid modern Mexican
poetry, composed with the lightest of touches. Here the Mayans of
Bonampak meet the Minoans of Knossos, united across the centuries
and thousands of miles by their preservation in wall-paintings, and
by their observer. Here the gods meet our gaze, and come forth,
raised from the ashes of history. They are not dead; they are not
forgotten; they have merely been sleeping, only to be awoken by the
poet. Elsa Cross is one of the most important living Mexican poets,
and this fine translation by the Irish poet, Anamaria Crowe
Serrano, does her work spectacular justice.
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