The Art of Keeping Quiet - Poems 1952-2011 (Paperback)

The Art of Keeping Quiet is the first anthology in English translation by Rodolfo Alonso, one of today's most renowned Argentine poets. As early as 1956, Raul Gustavo Aguirre noted in Alonso "a surprising verbal command, where the conquests of modern poetry meld into the terrain of language, while still respecting the structure and spirit of quotidian expression." Fifty years later, Juan Gelman praised "this crystalline voice that has celebrated existence, giving its expression an essential structure like an expanding spiral. Beauty turns these poems into music; they're engraved with a formal, imaginative, and conceptual rigor that is exceptional." Alonso's poetry is, in short, a radical questioning of solipsism, an exemplary search for the other. A poetry aware of itself, its reaches and limits, always seeking to be reinvented. A poetry that serenely unites aesthetic commitment and the social vanguard.

General

Imprint:	Salt Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Earthworks
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Rodolfo Alonso
Translators:	Katherine M. Hedeen • Victor Rodriguez Nunez
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-78463-033-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-78463-033-0
Barcode:	9781784630331

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