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Beyond the Sea brings together two book-length sequences first
published in Mexico in the early years of the century, both taking
their origins from Greece, a matter of central importance for the
poet for many years. Fittingly, for subject-matter thoroughly
drenched in the Greek past, the poems are odes and dithyrambs, with
the spirit of one sequence being Apollonian, while the other is
Dionysian. The gods are there, and imagery that has echoed across
the centuries is here transposed into a limpid modern Mexican
poetry, composed with the lightest of touches. Here the Mayans of
Bonampak meet the Minoans of Knossos, united across the centuries
and thousands of miles by their preservation in wall-paintings, and
by their observer. Here the gods meet our gaze, and come forth,
raised from the ashes of history. They are not dead; they are not
forgotten; they have merely been sleeping, only to be awoken by the
poet. Elsa Cross is one of the most important living Mexican poets,
and this fine translation by the Irish poet, Anamaria Crowe
Serrano, does her work spectacular justice.
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Bomarzo (Paperback)
Elsa Cross; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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The open mouth of the Orcus, in the front-cover photograph,
represents an entrance to the underworld, according to all the
symbolism embedded in the Gardens of Bomarzo, built in the 16th
Century in central Italy. And this book actually seems to play with
different strata of reality and perception, with different states
of the mind – as well as the soul. It proceeds from the concrete
to the oneiric; from the past, constantly weighting down the
present, to the timeless moment that perhaps in the final poems
gives meaning to – or annihilates – all the dense
phantasmagoria that courses through its pages.
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Amorgos Notebook (Paperback)
Elsa Cross; Translated by Tony Frazer, Luis Ingelmo
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Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgos) is a collection from 2007
that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the
Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as
the winner is chosen by her peers in the literary world. Elsa
Cross' work over the past several decades has demonstrated a
considerable fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its
departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of
remarkable ancient sculptures, and spectacular terrain.
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Selected Poems (Paperback, New)
Elsa Cross; Edited by Tony Frazer; Translated by John Oliver Simon, Ruth Fainlight, Luis Ingelmo, …
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Elsa Cross (born 1946) is one of Mexico's most significant
contemporary poets, and this is the first full-length collection of
her work in English - a long overdue but welcome opportunity for
Anglo-American readers to get a sense of the full breadth of her
work. The work selected for this volume concentrates on her longer
poems, which are at the core of Elsa Cross' work - ranging from the
remarkable "Bacchantes", which dates from the late '70s and early
'80s and offered here in full, through "Malabar Canto" - suffused
with the spirit of India - to the odes, dithyrambs and elegies of
the recent Greek-inflected works. Elsa Cross' work is typified by
its strong metaphysical orientation, coupled with a dazzling
surface and remarkable imagery, and offers the English-speaking
reader a new experience. A poetry to be savoured, thanks to the
efforts of the five translators at work here, all of whom worked
closely with the author to bring these poems successfully across
the language barrier.
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