Jaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the
twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent,
hallucinatory, brilliant--and, until recently, available only in
Spanish. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson's translations of Saenz's
work have garnered much-deserved attention and acclaim. Here for
the first time in English they give us his masterpiece, "The
Night," Saenz's most famous poem and the last he wrote before his
death in 1986.
An unusual man, Saenz lived his whole life in La Paz, Bolivia,
seldom venturing far from the city and its indigenous culture that
feature so prominently in his writings. He sought God in unlikely
places: slum taverns, alcoholic excess, the street. Saenz was
nocturnal. He once stole a leg from a cadaver and hid it under his
bed. On his wedding night he brought home a panther.
In this epic poem, Saenz explores the singular themes that
possessed him: alcoholism, death, nightmares, identity, otherness,
and his love for La Paz. The poem's four movements culminate in
some of the most profoundly mystical, beautiful, and disturbing
passages of modern Latin American poetry. They are presented here
in this faithful and inspired English translation of the Spanish
original.
Complete with an introduction by the translators that paints a
vivid picture of the poet's life, and an afterword by Luis H.
Antezana, a notable Bolivian literary critic and close friend of
Saenz, this bilingual edition is the essential introduction to one
of the most visionary and enigmatic poets of the Hispanic
world.
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