Countersong to Walt Whitman
Countersong to Walt Whitman
By:Pedro Mir,Silvio Torres Saillant
Published on 2017-12-11 by Caribbean Modern Classics
Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems is the only book-length collection of Mir's poetry in English translation. The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s: |Countersong to Walt Whitman|; |There Is a Country in the World|; |If Somebody Wants to Know Which Is My Country|; |To the Battleship Intrepid|; |Not One Step Back|; |Amen to Butterflies|; |Concerto of Hope for the Left Hand|; |Meditation on the Shores of Evening.| The introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of Caribbean Poetics (Peepal Tree Press), and foreword by Jean Franco, author of Cruel Modernity (Duke University Press), enable a broader appreciation for the personal context and general impact of Mir's work. A selected bibliography of works by and about the poet, including an accounting of the prose he has published as a novelist, author of short stories, essayist, and historian, provides readers with ample resources for further appreciation of Mir's achievement. In his introduction, Torres-Saillant emphasizes: |The present bilingual edition . . . will give both Spanish- and English-speaking readers . . . the opportunity to recognize themselves in the poetic visage of one of the most authentic literary artists to have come from the Caribbean.| About the first publication, Roberto M�rquez stated in the Village Voice: |The publication, in bilingual format, of this first book-length anthology of work by the Dominican Republic's internationally acclaimed and locally celebrated National Poet is an event--long anticipated, too long delayed. . . . Colleague, contemporary, and the equal in lyric vitality, epic ambition, and communal significance to Pablo Neruda or Nicol�s Guill�n, Mir remains, with Martinique's Aim� C�saire, perhaps the most masterfully elegant and majestic among the living voices of a generation that boasts more than its share of world-class poets. . . . [Mir's] poetry achieves a rare, exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics, of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama, the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America, its landscape, peoples, and societies.|
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