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Maria Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the
generation, born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's
distinguished Efrain Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry
prizes, as well as Spain's Francisco de Quevedo Prize for
Ibero-American Poetry. She is increasingly known for her sweeping
and incisive long poems and book-length projects, and this volume
contains two such works: 'To Tell' and the title poem.
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated by from the Spanish by
Joshua Edwards. FICTICIA was first published in Mexico in 2006. The
book is a trilogy of long poems: an initial sequence bearing the
overall title, a series of "Letters to Robinson," and a "Sky
Cycle." While these series are distinct poems, they are all
interconnected and intended to amplify each other and make a
greater whole. The first sequence has a narrative voice and
addresses an unidentified "you"; the second, the Letters, is
addressed to Robinson, a witness to the events that unfold; the
third returns to the narrative voice.
A lyrical collection of the finest poems by a leading Mexican poet,
superbly translated for English readers "A literary event. . . .
[Baranda's] work provides a bestiary as fierce as those found in
the Odyssey, Beowulf, or The Waste Land."-Merrill Kaitz, Arts Fuse
"A valuable collection . . . a metaphysical and philosophical
luminosity of language that immerses the reader in cycles of life,
death, and a quest for understanding what it means to be able to
perceive."-Susan Smith Nash, World Literature Today The poetry of
Maria Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world,
transcendent in scope, attentive to the particular, and acutely
attuned to the mystery of being. Absorbed by nature's otherness,
Baranda seeks to inhabit the voices of the wind, of wings, night,
day, and perhaps most keenly, water. These lyrical verses turn
repeatedly to the longings and griefs of embodiment: "What is that
God / To be praised with all our sadness / If not love / Or at
least the wonder / Of being a body full of blood," Baranda asks.
Drawing on epics such as the Aeneid and Beowulf, the mystical
verses of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and writers who engage the
landscape of shore and sea, from Daniel Defoe to Dylan Thomas, this
sweeping collection brings together the finest poems of one of
today's most powerful and innovative Mexican writers.
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