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Poesía
Esta edición de la poesía de Charles Simic (Belgrado, 1938) es la recopilación más completa en español de la obra literaria de uno de los autores de mayor autenticidad de nuestro tiempo. Un recorrido por cerca de seis décadas de creación poética del ganador del Premio Pulitzer y Poeta Laureado por la Biblioteca del Congreso de los EEUU.
En este libro, que incluye varios poemas nunca antes publicados ni en inglés ni en español y que han sido cedidos por el autor para esta ocasión, el lector encontrará al Simic más surrealista que escribe a un tenedor o al más irónico y ácido, que busca un calcetín perdido por la mañana o escucha las noticias en la radio. El poeta también rememora los juegos de su infancia durante los bombardeos en una Europa asediada y nos recuerda que en todas las guerras nuestros nombres se incluyen entre las víctimas.
«Pocos poetas contemporáneos han sido tan influyentes y tan inimitables como Charles Simic». The New York Times
«Una primera lectura de la obra de Simic es suficiente para determinar que se trata de un maestro, gobernante de su propio reino excéntrico de sintaxis y perspicacia únicas». Los Angeles Times
En este libro, que incluye varios poemas nunca antes publicados ni en inglés ni en español y que han sido cedidos por el autor para esta ocasión, el lector encontrará al Simic más surrealista que escribe a un tenedor o al más irónico y ácido, que busca un calcetín perdido por la mañana o escucha las noticias en la radio. El poeta también rememora los juegos de su infancia durante los bombardeos en una Europa asediada y nos recuerda que en todas las guerras nuestros nombres se incluyen entre las víctimas.
«Pocos poetas contemporáneos han sido tan influyentes y tan inimitables como Charles Simic». The New York Times
«Una primera lectura de la obra de Simic es suficiente para determinar que se trata de un maestro, gobernante de su propio reino excéntrico de sintaxis y perspicacia únicas». Los Angeles Times
420 pages, Paperback
Published September 14, 2020
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About the author
Charles Simic
264 books473 followersU.S. Poet Laureate, 2007-2008
Dušan Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, on May 9, 1938. Simic’s childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963.
Simic is the author of more than 30 poetry collections, including The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1989), which received the Pulitzer Prize; Jackstraws (1999); Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), which received the International Griffin Poetry Prize; and Scribbled in the Dark (2017). He is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught for over 30 years.
Simic has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His other honors and awards include the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Translation Prize. He served as the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and was elected as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2001. Simic has also been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Dušan Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, on May 9, 1938. Simic’s childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963.
Simic is the author of more than 30 poetry collections, including The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1989), which received the Pulitzer Prize; Jackstraws (1999); Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), which received the International Griffin Poetry Prize; and Scribbled in the Dark (2017). He is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught for over 30 years.
Simic has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His other honors and awards include the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Translation Prize. He served as the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and was elected as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2001. Simic has also been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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June 3, 2024
Me pareció una traducción muy deficiente, hecha sin verdadero cariño por la poesía de Simic. Hecha por encargo. Por cumplir.
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