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Between Day and Night - New and Selected Poems, 1946-2010 (Paperback)
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Between Day and Night - New and Selected Poems, 1946-2010 (Paperback)
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List price R587
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Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, an esteemed translator, poet, editor, and
professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, has been
publishing his original English and Spanish poetry since 1946. Born
in Mexico City in 1926, Gonzalez-Gerth moved to the United States
in 1940 and made it his permanent home. He received his B.A. from
the University of Texas in 1950 and a PhD from Princeton in 1973,
and taught at UT for over thirty years.
Editor David Colon has compiled a selection of Gonzalez-Gerth's
poems that demonstrate the range of interests, themes, and styles
that span more than a century of a life dedicated to Hispanic
literature studies. The poems in this collection are arranged
chronologically, exhibiting "the different phases of a poet's life
as well as different historical moments and literary traditions."
Many of the poems appear with side-by-side translation,
demonstrating not only the creativity born of a unique cultural
perspective, but the profound understanding and commitment to the
process of translation, taking a poem through its original written
language, rethinking the words, allusions, connotations, and
presenting it in a different language and tradition.
"He has two guiding principles as a translator of poetry: to keep
the languages distinct, and to approach the act of reproduction as
an art form itself. In the end, the translation must work on the
terms of its own language. It is more important for it to be a
successful poem than a faithful copy," writes Colon in the
introduction. "Between Day and Night" provides a record of
Gonzalez-Gerth's achievement as a poet and translator, a writer who
stays true to the languages and poetic styles of Latin America and
Anglo-America, and "work s] with essentially two minds."
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