{"title":"Americas","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine","title":"Marosa di Giorgio, Jasmine for Clementina Médici","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Peter Boyle, with an introduction by Roberto Echavarren.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this extraordinary last book by Uruguayan poet Marosa di Giorgio poetic fragmentation, memories, nightmares and brief surreal sequences create a portrait of a mother, her daughter and the relationship between them stretching over a lifetime. Simultaneously evoking childhood and old age, tenderness and horror, di Giorgio gathers the sense of an entire life in its sadness and dignity. One of the great renovators of Uruguayan literature, through her bold experimentalism di Giorgio blurs lines between genres to deliver the raw immediacy of experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarosa di Giorgio \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1932-2004) was born in Salto, Uruguay. The child of first and second generation Italian immigrants, di Giorgio grew up on a small farm on the city’s outskirts. As a child she developed a passion for theatre and poetry. She was an actress with a professional theatre company during the 1950’s and 60’s as well as briefly a journalist but later worked in the Civil Registry Office in Salto. In 1978 she moved to Montevideo. In 1953 her first book of poems appeared followed regularly by many others. From 1971 onwards her poetic work has been gathered into one continuously-expanding, thematically-interrelated book \u003cem\u003eLos papeles salvajes\u003c\/em\u003e.- some 650 pages in its 2008 edition. Marosa di Giorgio is also the author of five volumes of short stories. Through the 1980’s and 90’s she received a range of major awards and presented her poetry at Festivals and Universities in Latin America, Spain and the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an Australian poet and translator of poetry from Spanish and French. In 2013 he was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Translation. He is particularly noted for his translations of Cuban poet José Kozer and Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoberto Echavarren\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a distinguished Uruguayan poet and critic. He is also the co-editor of two very significant anthologies: \u003cem\u003eMedusario \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHotel Lautréamont – Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarosa di Giorgio, \u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016. 110pp. 203mm x 133mm. 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The collection highlights two major poets of the late 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century from Argentina and Uruguay and also introduces the younger, previously untranslated Uruguayan poet – Jorge Palma\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOlga Orozco\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1920-1999) was born in Toay, La Pampa, Argentina, spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca and at sixteen moved with her family to Buenos Aires. Her first collection of poems \u003cem\u003eDesde lejos\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 1946 and was followed over the next five decades by nine further collections, as well as selected anthologies, two collections of short stories, essays and plays. She travelled extensively and gave readings of her poetry in Europe, the United States and throughout Latin America. Among other honours Olga Orozco was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature in 1998.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarosa di Giorgio \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1932-2004) was born in Salto, Uruguay. The child of first and second generation Italian immigrants, di Giorgio grew up on a small farm on the city’s outskirts. As a child she developed a passion for theatre and poetry. She was an actress with a professional theatre company during the 1950’s and 60’s as well as briefly a journalist, but later worked in the Civil Registry Office in Salto. In 1978 she moved to Montevideo. In 1953 her first book of poems appeared followed regularly by many others. From 1971 onwards her poetic work has been gathered into one continuously-expanding, thematically-interrelated book \u003cem\u003eLos papeles salvajes\u003c\/em\u003e.- some 650 pages in its 2008 edition. 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A collection of his short stories, \u003cem\u003eParaísos artificiales\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1990.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an Australian poet and translator of poetry from Spanish and French. In 2013 he was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Translation. He is particularly noted for his translations of Cuban poet José Kozer and Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio \u0026amp; Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(The Americas Poetry Series 1)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. 152pp. 190mm x 120mm. 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Gathering together translations by Mario Licón Cabrera from Mijail Lamas’s \u003ci\u003eCountersummer\u003c\/i\u003e, Mario Bojórquez’s \u003ci\u003eTo Speak Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e and Alí Calderón’s \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondences\u003c\/i\u003e, this is an essential introduction to twenty-first century Mexican poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Mexico has a thriving, vast and rich poetic ecosystem. There is the immersive, Neo-Baroque writing of Coral Bracho; the narrative poetry of Tedi López Mills; Mónica Nepote’s visceral, body imagery; the intimate verses of Nadia Escalante; Gabriel Zaid, Óscar Cid de León, Hernán Bravo Varela, Carla Faesler; the list goes on. This anthology provides a limited but satisfying taste, eclectic in its choices, and highly recommended.' \u003cspan\u003eGabriel García Ochoa reviews\u003cem\u003e Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórques \u0026amp; Alí Calderón \u003c\/em\u003ein \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/ochoa-cabrera-lamas-bojorques-calderon\/\" href=\"https:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/ochoa-cabrera-lamas-bojorques-calderon\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCordite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The poems from \u003ci\u003eCountersummer\u003c\/i\u003e seem to be built around one scene: the poet, far away from his native city, writes about his links with the past – childhood, family, those streets in sepia ... a cycle of poems about the difficulties of nostalgia, that, in the motive of heat, condenses a lyrical examination of an inner world.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Geney Beltrán (La gaceta, México)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In Mario Bojórquez the immateriality of the symbol becomes tangible, the rhythm is charged with spirituality like a flame suspended over the mouth of time, his chants comes and goes from Nature to Men. The poet of \u003ci\u003eTo Speak Shadows \u003c\/i\u003euses his own flesh to raise this offering to the highest dream.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLuis David Palacios (Andraval, México)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Alí Calderón, breaks frequently with language and syntax, especially in his poems of love and lack of love, but he keeps in mind that this work of destruction doesn’t stop his writing to become an arrow that pierces the readers’ heart. In his notable love poems there’s the sadness that diminishes, the pain that tears apart or brakes, the humiliation of failure, the defeat that at the end of the day is the only thing worthwhile. \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondences\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of splendid maturity”     \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarco Antonio Campos (Visor Libros, España)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMijail Lamas \u003c\/b\u003e(Culiacán, Sinaloa. 1979) Poet, translator and literary critic. He has published three collections of poetry. In 2012 he was awarded the Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize for his book Trevas (Canción del navegante de sí mismo).  He is considered amongst one of the most relevant forty young poets writing in Spanish today. He was the Senior editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Río Grande Review\u003c\/i\u003e, University of  El Paso, Texas, and is one of the editors of \u003ci\u003eCírculo de Poesía\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has been translated into several languages and included in many anthologies, both national and word wide. The poems included here are from his book \u003ci\u003eContraverano \/ Countersummer\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Fondo Eitorial Tierrra Adentro, México, in 2007.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Bojórquez \u003c\/b\u003e(Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 1968). Poet, essayist and translator. Studied Hispanic Language and Literature at UNAM. He has published eight collections of poetry, amongst them \u003ci\u003eHablar Sombras\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eMemorial de Ayotzinapa\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and  \u003ci\u003eAquí todo es memoria, 25 Years of Poetry,\u003c\/i\u003e (anthology 2016). He has been awarded the most prestigious poetry prizes such as the Abigael Bohórquez Poetry Prize (1996), the National Poetry Prize Aguascalientes (2007), the National Prize for Literary Essay José Revueltas (2010), the Alhambra Prize for American Poetry (2012), the Distinction Prince and Poet Tecayehuatzin de Huexotzinco (2012) and The Ignacio Rodríguez Galván Medal (2015). Since 2007 is part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. He is the editor of the online literary magazine www.circulodepoesia.com, and director, together with poet Alí Calderón, of the Valparaíso México Series, and The International Poetry Festival CDMX. The poems included here are from the collection \u003ci\u003eHablar Sombras \/ To Speak Shadows,\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 2013 by Andraval Ediciones, México.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlí Calderón \u003c\/b\u003e(México City 1982) poet and literary critic. He completed a Doctorate in Literature at UNAM. He received the National Poetry Prize Ramón López Velarde and the Latin American Poetry Prize Benemérito de América. In 2015 VISOR (Spain) published his most recent poetry collection \u003ci\u003eLAS CORRESPONDECIAS \/ THE CORRESPONDENCES\u003c\/i\u003e, from which the poems included here are taken. He’s the director of the online magazine \u003ci\u003eCírculo de Poesía\u003c\/i\u003e and co-director of Valparaiso México Press and the International Poetry Festival CDMX. Editor of \u003ci\u003ePoéticas Revista de Estudios Literarios \u003c\/i\u003epublished by universities from Europe, USA and Latin America. He’s a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. His most recent books of literary essays are: \u003ci\u003eDel poema al transtexto Essays on how to read Mexican poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, Colombia, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eReinventando el Lirismo\u003c\/i\u003e (Spain, 2015, México, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustavo Osorio\u003c\/b\u003e (Puebla, México, 1986) completed a BA in Linguistics and Hispanic Literature (2011) and a Masters in Mexican Literature (2014) at the BUAP, receiving a Cum Laude mention in both. He is currently working on a PhD in Hispanic American Literature. He was awarded the Philosophy and Letters Prize for Poetry in 2008. In 2012 he published \u003ci\u003eBonapartes\u003c\/i\u003e, his first collection of poems and in 2015 \u003ci\u003eReinventar el Lirismo\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays on poetics (together with Alí Calderón). He has translated poetry from French and English into Spanish, more recently \u003ci\u003eAlmuerzo con Pancho Villa\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Mudoon published by Valparaiso. He is part of the editing board of the French-Marrocan poetry magazine \u003ci\u003eElecton Libre\u003c\/i\u003e and the academic magazine \u003ci\u003ePoeticas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Licón Cabrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Chihuahua, México, 1949) is a poet and translator. He has published four collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eYuxtas\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eBack\u0026amp;Forth\u003c\/i\u003e), a bilingual edition with the support of Australian Council for the Arts in 2009. He has translated many Australian leading poets into Spanish amongst them Dorothy Porter, Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, Ali Cobby Eckerman, Robert Adamson, Michelle Cahill and many more. He is a regular contributor for two Mexican magazines (\u003ci\u003eDosFilos \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCírculo de Poesía\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as for the Australian online magazine \u003ci\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Premio de Poesia Trilce (Australia, 2015). Lives in Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoems of MijaIl Lamas, Mario Bojórquez \u0026amp; Alí Calderón\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e(The Americas Poetry Series 2)\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from Spanish by Mario Licón Cabrera. \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Gustavo Osorio.\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 2017. 118pp. 190mm x 120mm. 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A profound, poetic exploration into the world of the Argentinian blackbird, the book blends blackbird with forest, with earth and sky, with dream, with song and, ultimately, with poetry itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bilingual edition includes a moving introduction by Gianni’s son, Eugenio. 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Look at it!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Gianni Sicardi responded patiently and gave us these many more than thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird, which Stuart Cooke has rendered into English with sensitivity and sparkle. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times;\"\u003eThe Blackbird\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic scale model of the cosmos, revolving around a common prodigy of song.”  Chris Andrews \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGianni Siccardi was born in Banfield, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1933. A major poet, critic and translator of his generation, he wrote numerous collections of poetry, was the editor of a series of significant anthologies and magazines, and through his many translations introduced Argentinian readers to some of Italy’s foremost contemporary poets. He died in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStuart Cooke is a poet, critic and translator. 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