So extraordinarily clear, so connected to the primitive I imagine I am . . . participating in a vision already lost to the world. --William Carlos Williams
The microgram is collected, pondered upon, and defined in this quiet classic of Ecuadorian literature.
In the alphabet of things
the snail invents
the penultimate letter.
Jorge Carrera Andrade (1902-1978) has been recognized as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century.
Alejandro de Acosta and Joshua Beckman co-translated Carlos Oquendo de Amat's 5 Meters of Poems. Beckman's translation of Tomaz Salamun's Poker was a finalist for the PEN/America Poetry in Translation Award.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 11/01/2011
ISBN: 9781933517551
Pages: 85
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/15/2011