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"Can the poet speak for others while at the same time expressing the conviction that he is "nobody" (like Ulysses)? Or feeling his own disauthorization? In modern times who has ever asked the poet to speak? Carlos Piera imagines himself as other in order to talk about his own circumstances but that is often, ironically, as an other who does not have a voice himself. And so there is Ahasuerus, who regrets having spoken, or the Palestinian mother, who sings a lullaby before a bomb may fall. The worst fate is to have no voice or to have one that is scorned: to be a Cassandra or an "old weed", unable to do much more than scream. Out of such contradictions poetry emerges." -From the prologue by Roberta Ann Quance As translator Roberta Quance explains, this compilation arose from a long and intimate contact with the poetry of Carlos Piera, from which the desire to translate it into her native language grew naturally.

About the Author :
Carlos Piera Gil (Madrid, 1942) is a poet, critic and linguist. He is a member of the Circulo Linguistico de Madrid, together with Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio, Victor Sanchez de Zavala, Agustin Garcia Calvo and Isabel Llacer. He obtained his doctorate at UCLA with an unpublished thesis on Spanish metrics. He has been a professor of linguistics at Cornell University, and retired from the linguistics department at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He was a member of the editorial board of the essay magazine La Balsa de la Medusa [Madrid] from its inception in 1987 until its closure in 2011. He is the author of four books of poetry: Versos (1972), Antologia para un papagayo (1985), De lo que viene como si se fuera (1991) and Religio y otros poemas (2005). His poetry has been collected in a volume entitled Apartamentos de alquiler (2013), which includes individual poems not included in the previous books. He has published various essays, several of them compiled in two books, entitled Contrariedades del sujeto (1993) and La moral del testigo (2012).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848619203
  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Shearsman Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Diferencias dificiles
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1848619200
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Weight: 212 gr


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