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"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." —from "In Order to Talk with the Dead" Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career. Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore."

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: "From the Land of Nevermore: On the Poetry of Jorge Teillier" by Carolyne Wright Translator's Note PART ONE. Poems from Muertes y maravillas (Deaths and Wonders) (1953-1971) From A los habitantes del País de Nunca Jamás (To the Inhabitants of the Land of Nevermore) (1953-1970) Ontoño secreto / Secret Autumn Alegría / Joy La última isla / The Last Island Imagen para un estanque / Image for a Pond He confiado en la noche / I Have Trusted in the Night Relatos / Narratives Tarde / Afternoon Poema de invierno / Winter Poem La llave / The Key Carta de lluvia / Letter of Rain Puente en el sur / Bridge in the South Tarjeta postal / Postcard Sentados frente al fuego / Sitting in Front of the Fire Letra de tango / Tango Lyric Cuento de la tarde / Afternoon Story Para hablar con los muertos / In Order to Talk with the Dead Un año, otro año / One Year, Another Year Atardecer en automóvil / Afternoon in Automobile Cuando todos se vayan / When Everyone Goes Away Fin del mundo / End of the World Historia de un hijo pródigo / Story of a Prodigal Son Otro cantar / Another Song Señales / Signs Los conjuros / The Exorcisms Linterna sorda / Dark Lantern Molino de madera / Wooden Mill La tierra de la noche / The Land of Night En memoria de una casa cerrada / In Memory of a Closed House Juegos / Games Imagen / Image A un niño en un árbol / To a Child in a Tree Frutos del verano / Fruits of Summer Edad de oro / Golden Age Los trenes de la noche (Night Trains) (1964, 1971) Los trenes de la noche / Night Trains PART TWO. Poems from Para un pueblo fantasma (For a Town of Ghosts) (1978) From Nadie ha muerto aún en esta casa (Nobody's Died Yet in This House) (1978) Nadie ha muerto aún en esta casa / Nobody's Died Yet in This House Aperitivo / Aperitif Siete paia un secieto / Seven for a Secret Bajo el cielo nacido tras la lluvia / Under the Sky Born after the Rain Lluvia inmóvil / Immobile Rain Ultimo día de vacaciones / Last Day of Vacation En el mes de los zorros / In the Month of Foxes From Pequeña confesión (Small Confession) (1978) Paisaje de Clínica / Clinical Landscape Mi amor por ti / My Love for You Notas sobre el último viaje del autor a su pueblo natal (Notes on the Author's Last Journey to the Town of His Birth) (1978) Notas sobre el último viaje del autor a su pueblo natal / Notes on the Author's Last Journey to the Town of His Birth From "Las ciudades que he conocido vivían como locas" ("The Cities I have Known Were Living Like Mad") (1978) Un día en Madrid / A Day in Madrid From Libro de homenajes (Book of Homages) (1971, 1978) Los dominios perdidos / The Lost Domain El retorno de Orfeo / The Return of Orpheus Retrato de mi padre, militante comunista / Portrait of My Father, Militant Communist Despedida / So Long PART THREE. Poems from Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (Letters to Queens of Other Springs) (1985) Todo está en bianco / Everything's Gone White Ahora que de nuevo / Now That Once Again Sin señal de vida / No Sign of Life Notes About the Poet About the Translator

Review :
"Teillier was fortunate that Carolyne Wright... discovered his work, for she has brought to his moving, delicately modulated poems a sympathy and a sureness of touch that have resulted in highly readable, faithful translations." (Texas Books In Review)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292753587
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier
  • ISBN-10: 0292753586
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 277


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