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From the late sixteenth century and well into the seventeenth,
Spain produced one of the most vibrant and popular dramatic canons
in the history of theatre, known as the Comedia. Collected,
translated and edited by the pre-eminent scholars in the field are
the finest examples of this rich source, along with the scholarly
apparatus necessary to study the canon in depth.
Reasons for Writing Poetry is the first collection of verse to
appear in English from the internationally acclaimed Peruvian poet
Eduardo Chirinos (Lima, 1960). This selection of works, spanning
nearly thirty years of poetic output, was carefully chosen for this
edition by the author in collaboration with his long-time
translator. Chirinos is well known in his native country and the
author of sixteen books of poetry in addition to volumes of
academic criticism, essays, translations, and children's books. A
member of Peru's 80's Generation, his work has been widely
anthologized throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Several of
Chirinos's poems have appeared in literary journals in English
translation.The present volume charts the growth of a poet whose
fondness for masks is manifest in the frequently dialogic, even
polyvocal discourse of his work. Chirinos's poetry is marked by a
wry tone and simple lyric eloquence. Accessible, ironic, and always
entertaining, the poems in Reasons for Writing Poetry treat time
and again Chirinos's favourite subjects and themes: the return to
childhood, the vagaries of memory, the alternative reality of
dream, a fascination with animals, the utility of seeing and
hearing, the writer's place in poetic tradition, and the
never-ending search for originality through innovative expression.
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