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«This first English-language biography of Juan Gelman is a most welcome and necessary book. It begins to set the record straight: Juan Gelman is the major but most neglected (in the anglophone world) South American poet of the late 20th and early 21st century. Poetically as experimental as César Vallejo, poetically more clear-eyed, engaged - & wounded - than Neruda, Gelman is who we need to read & study today. We need Gelman's polyglot, at times heteronymic, nomadism with which he destabilized a fossilized language, tango'd its syntax & brought it into a wider sense of the Americas. Start with this book, and read on, into Juan Gelman's oeuvre."" - Pierre Joris, author of Barzakh and A Nomad Poetics»
In 1976, at 2:00 one summer morning, paramilitary forces broke into a house in a quiet upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Inside, sleeping, were two nineteen-year-old girls and a twenty-year-old boy. Les mer
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For Juan Gelman, one of the most celebrated Latin American poets of the twentieth century, this was one of many grim events. Born in 1930, his was a life of narrow escapes. As an Ashkenazi Jew, poet, guerrilla fighter, freethinker, and prolific journalist, he escaped three death sentences decreed by groups on both the right and the left in Argentina. He was a victim of state terrorism in that country, and still he made his voice heard.
For his poetry, Gelman was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most prestigious award in Spanish literature. Because nothing could suppress his voice, he expressed the dreams of an entire generation.
This biography explores both his writing and the physical, intellectual, and political environment in South America during Gelman's life, a life that was punctuated by near misses, imprisonments, and the disappearance and torture of family members. Through it all we hear the ringing voice of a singular poet.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Texas Christian University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780875657141
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«This first English-language biography of Juan Gelman is a most welcome and necessary book. It begins to set the record straight: Juan Gelman is the major but most neglected (in the anglophone world) South American poet of the late 20th and early 21st century. Poetically as experimental as César Vallejo, poetically more clear-eyed, engaged - & wounded - than Neruda, Gelman is who we need to read & study today. We need Gelman's polyglot, at times heteronymic, nomadism with which he destabilized a fossilized language, tango'd its syntax & brought it into a wider sense of the Americas. Start with this book, and read on, into Juan Gelman's oeuvre."" - Pierre Joris, author of Barzakh and A Nomad Poetics»