One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016
"Cortazar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his
style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical,
full of animals but deeply human. Cortazar is a people's poet,
accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the
Latin American boom is indisputable."--Publishers Weekly, starred
review World renowned as one of the masters of modern fiction,
Julio Cortazar was also a prolific poet. While living in Paris
during the last months of his life, Cortazar assembled his life's
work in verse for publication, and Save Twilight selects the best
of that volume, making his poems available in English for the very
first time. This expanded edition, with nearly one hundred new
pages of poems, prose and illustrations, is a book to be savored by
both the familiar reader and the newcomer to Cortazar work. Ranging
from the intimate to the political, tenderness to anger, heartbreak
to awe, in styles both traditionally formal and free, Cortazar the
poet and subverter of genres is revealed as a versatile and
passionate virtuoso. More than a collection of poems, this book is
a playful and revealing self-portrait of a writer in love with
language in all its forms. Praise for Save Twilight: "With this
expanded edition of Save Twilight, Stephen Kessler continues his
project, begun in the 1980s, of translating poetry by Julio
Cortazar. Widely known for his fiction, especially Hopscotch, a
seminal work of the Latin American Boom, Cortazar was also a
compelling poet. Kessler has found just the right turns of phrase
in English to capture the Argentine's deeply moving writing and
exceptionally emotive language. What a gift this collection is for
English-speaking readers."--Edith Grossman, winner of the PEN/Ralph
Manheim Medal for Translation "Some people run the world, others
are the world. Cortazar's poems are the world; they have a special
consideration for the unknown."--Enrique Vila-Matas, author of The
Illogic of Kassel "What a pleasure, this walk in a
well-orchestrated park with shades as complex, as light & as
dark, as multifoliate as the actual world! This book--the 'poetic
ecology' Cortazar had envisioned--is an open invitation to make
yourselves at home twixt sea and loss, wine & sorrow, birth
& riptide, tobacco & talk, laughter & death. Nothing
human is foreign to the poet--& he brings it home with great
clarity & grace. The writing & the book embody a tradition
of hospitality, or as Cortazar puts it: 'Hello little black book
for the late hours, cats on the prowl under a paper moon.' The
injunction to save twilight stands as title--it is also exactly
what the writing accomplishes. Stephen Kessler's elegant, accurate,
and sometimes felicitously ose translations do these poems more
than justice."--Pierre Joris, author of Barzakh (Poems 2000-2012)
"For those who have enjoyed Cortazar's fiction, among the most
seminal and compelling of our time, here now are his wonderful
poems. And for those who don't know Cortazar from a cat, it's a
chance to visit his crepuscular world in all its multiple layers. A
tender, experimental, humorous, meditative, jazzy, heart-breaking
collection to be relished and savored slowly." --Ariel Dorfman,
author of Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Julio Cortazar was born in Brussels in 1914 of Argentinian parents,
raised in Argentina, and spent his most productive years in Paris,
where he died in 1984.
General
Imprint: |
City Lights Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
City Lights Pocket Poets Series |
Release date: |
July 2016 |
Authors: |
Julio Cortázar
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Editors: |
Stephen Kessler
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Dimensions: |
158 x 127 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
288 |
Edition: |
Second Edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-87286-709-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-87286-709-9 |
Barcode: |
9780872867093 |
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