Lineas conectadas: nueva poesia de los Estados Unidos

by April Linder (Editor), Hernan Lara Zavala (Translator)

Overview

Through a partnership to promote wider access to literary voices of Mexican artists in the United States and American writers in Mexico, the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Embassy in Mexico, and Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts have joined together to support a proposed three-year program of anthology publication and public outreach activities. In the first year, Sarabande has been named publisher of the poetry anthologies.

“We are pleased to introduce readers to the best of contemporary Mexican and American poetry through these comprehensive bilingual anthologies,” states National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia. “I believe they will quickly become essential volumes for poetry lovers and grant new insight into both cultures.”

Contributors include: Kay Ryan, Larry Levis, Thomas Lux, Marilyn Nelson, Ron Silliman, Molly Peacock, Amy Uyematsu, Jorie Graham, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Naomi Shihab Nye, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932511215
Publisher:	Sarabande Books
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

April Lindner's collection, Skin, won the 2002 Walt McDonald First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, The Formalist, and other magazines. Garrison Keillor read two of her poems on The Writer's Almanac in May and chose one poem for his anthology Good Poems. She teaches creative writing at Saint Joseph's Universityin Philadelphia. Zavala has given numerous seminars on creative writing and literature and has published several volumes of fiction, including Charras, Santillana. The novel is an account of the student leader known as Charras, who was abducted and murdered in the Yucatan. Hernan Lara Zavala is a professor at his alma mater, the National University, in Mexico City.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xiv
	Prefacio	xv
	Introduction	xx
	Introduccion	xxi
	A Palpable Silence	2
	Un silencio palpable	3
	Turtle	4
	Tortuga	5
	Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage	6
	Elegia con un dedal de agua en la jaula	7
	Looking for Judas	20
	En busca de Judas	21
	Without Words	22
	Sin palabras	23
	A Little Tooth	24
	Un pequeno diente	25
	Refrigerator, 1957	24
	Refrigerador, 1957	25
	How I Discovered Poetry	28
	Como descubri la poesia	29
	Minor Miracle	28
	Un pequeno milagro	29
	From The Chinese Notebook	32
	De El cuaderno chino	33
	Child Beater	40
	El golpeador de ninos	41
	She Didn't Even Wave	42
	Ni siquiera dijo adios	43
	Facing It	46
	Cara a cara	47
	Ode to the Maggot	48
	Oda al gusano	49
	Subway Vespers	50
	Plegaria vespertina en el metro	51
	Why I Am Not a Buddhist	52
	Por que no soy budista	53
	A Bowl of Stone Fruit	54
	Un tazon de fruta de piedra	55
	Solving for X	56
	Resolviendo la X	57
	Deliberate	60
	Deliberado	61
	The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles	60
	Las diez millones de llamas de Los Angeles	61
	Body Bags	66
	Bolsas para cadaveres	67
	The Drive-In	70
	El autocinema	71
	Robert	74
	Robert	75
	Grandmother Rattler	76
	Abuela de cascabel	77
	An Aubade	82
	Alborada	83
	Sapphics Against Anger	84
	Versossaficos contra la furia	85
	Frying Trout while Drunk	88
	Trucha frita y borrachera	89
	The Sleeping	90
	Los que duermen	91
	My Tea with Madame Descartes	92
	Te con Madame Descartes	93
	From "33"	100
	De "33"	101
	How I Learned to Sweep	100
	Como aprendi a barrer	101
	Tu Negrito	104
	Tu negrito	105
	Undressing a Cop	106
	Instrucciones para desvestir a un tira	107
	Blues in the Nation's Capital	110
	Un blues en la capital de la nacion	111
	Dirty Poem	112
	Poema sucio	113
	The Colonel	116
	El coronel	117
	For the Stranger	118
	Para un extrano	119
	I Watched a Snake	122
	Miraba a una serpiente	123
	Life of a Salesman	128
	Vida de un agente viajero	129
	Thirty-six Weeks	132
	Treinta y seis semanas	133
	Aubade	136
	Alborada	137
	Kettle	138
	Caldero	139
	Praying Drunk	140
	Rezando ebrio	141
	Beatitudes	144
	Bienaventuranzas	145
	The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica	148
	La deli latina: Un ars poetica	149
	The Lesson of the Teeth	150
	La leccion de los dientes	151
	Daystar	154
	Estrella diurna	155
	American Smooth	156
	Terso americano	157
	After Disappointment	158
	Despues de la desilusion	159
	Ground Swell	160
	Mar de fondo	161
	The Traveling Onion	164
	La cebolla viajera	165
	Famous	166
	Famosa	167
	Madre Sofia	168
	Madre Sofia	169
	The Purpose of Altar Boys	172
	La mision de los monaguillos	173
	Bill's Story	176
	La historia de Bill	177
	No	180
	No	181
	Lucky	184
	Tener suerte	185
	Honda Pavarotti	186
	Pavarotti Honda	187
	Nightfishing	192
	Pesca nocturna	193
	Supernatural Love	194
	Amor sobrenatural	195
	First Poem for You	200
	Primer poema para ti	201
	Target	200
	Diana	201
	Jazz Dancer	204
	Bailarin de jazz	205
	The Supremes	208
	Los supremos	209
	Black Ice and Rain	212
	Hielo negro y lluvia	213
	Song of the Powers	220
	Cancion de los poderes	221
	The Lost House	222
	La casa perdida	223
	Welcome to Hiroshima	226
	Bienvenido a Hiroshima	227
	Dead Letters	230
	Cartas muertas	231
	Resurrections	234
	Resurrecciones	235
	To the Desert	238
	Al desierto	239
	Down by the Riverside	240
	Por la orilla del rio	241
	Goldsboro Narrative #7	242
	Narrativa Goldsboro #7	243
	The Gift	244
	El obsequio	245
	This Hour and What Is Dead	246
	Esta hora y lo que esta muerto	247
	Aristaeus Forgiven	250
	Aristaeo perdonado	251
	Second Circle	254
	Segundo circulo	255
	Selections from "Orders of Magnitude"	256
	Selecciones de "Ordenes de magnitud"	257
	Safe-T-Man	262
	Seguri-man	263
	I Conclude a Sonnet Never Changed	264
	Deduzco que un soneto no ha cambiado	265
	Bird	266
	Pajaro	267
	Mr. Donut	268
	El Sr. Dona	269
	Oysters	272
	Ostras	273
	El Dia de los Muertos	274
	El dia de los muertos	275
	The Exaggeration of Despair	278
	La exageracion de la desesperanza	279
	Ceremonies	280
	Ceremonias	281
	The Minefield	284
	Campo minado	285
	South Beach Wedding	286
	Boda en South Beach	287
	Monologue for an Onion	288
	Monologo para una cebolla	289
	Occupation	290
	Labores	291
	Hades Welcomes His Bride	294
	Hades recibe a su esposa	295
	Study in White	296
	Estudio en blanco	297
	Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field	300
	Al pedirsele un bonito recuerdo de su padre, le viene a la mente el campo Wrigley	301
	Why I Can't Cook for Your Self-Centered Architect Cousin	302
	Por que me niego a cocinar para el egoista de tu primo arquitecto	303
	Biografias	306
	Las menciones	314