Mario Martín Gijón’s (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short
pas-sionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might
sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the poet
immerses us in his story by a complex process of linguistic
recreation: recreation in the sense of re-invention and recreation
also as play, or playfulness.
Eduardo Moga explains his method: ‘The poetry of Mario
Martín Gijón is characterised by a morphological promiscuity
which springs from an intense awareness of the susceptibility of
language to experiment. Words become lexical clay in the hands of
the poet, or articulated entities into which other words may be
telescoped. Words break, unscrew, crumble onto the page like sand.
They are like scattered pieces of a mosaic reassembled to form a
new puzzle. This is done by the insertion of brackets around
letters, slashes allowing a choice between letters, dashes severing
or connecting syllables, suffixes or prefixes belonging equally to
the words surrounding them. It multiplies the ways in which a
phrase can be read, multiplies its potential simultaneous
meanings.” So the poet is able to juggle the memory of pleasure
with present suffering, joy and pain in a single verse:
(pre/es/ab)sence. Ambiguity striving for synchronicity, the
language of love becoming as fraught with contradiction as love
itself.
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Mario Martin Gijon
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Translators: |
Terence Dooley
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
124 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-704-9 |
Subtitles: |
Spanish
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Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-704-6 |
Barcode: |
9781848617049 |
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