Port Trakl (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780979975509)

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky. First introduced to a U.S. audience by Cecilia Vicuna in 4 Mapuche Poets, Jaime Luis Huenun has become best-known through Daniel Borzutzky's vivid, memorable translations. In these recent poems--published in 2001 in Chile--Huenun invents a setting influenced by Melville's vivid scenarios, Coleridge's languid morbidity, andGeorge Trakl's silences and darkening seas. Borzutzky's English version is as haunted, brooding, and terrific as the original--Forrest Gander. PORT TRAKL is a world whose characters do not know which world they belong to, and which world they want to belong to; and as they attempt to depart one state of exile and enter into another, we get the sense that they will always be caught between worlds: between the real and the imaginary, between speech and silence, between poetry and the impossibility of hope--Daniel Borzutzky.

Author: Jaime Luis Huenun
ISBN-10: 0979975506
ISBN-13: 9780979975509
Publisher: Action Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.20d