Next week! Swan Isle Press will release our newest bilingual edition, Alliance and Condemnation | Alianza y Condena by Claudio Rodríguez; translated by Philip W. Silver, professor emeritus, Columbia University in the City of New York. For our patient and eager readers whove been looking forward to this inspiring book of poems by one of Spains finest poets of the twentieth century, your patience will be well rewarded. Among #Spains great literary legacies of the second half of the twentieth century, Claudio Rodriguez crafted his Alianza y condena as a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence—the “bounty that turns my flawed breath into prayer”—with a questioning of empirical reality. In these pages are poems of love and hate, contrition and forgiveness, and the joys of sorrow and existence. Many of the poems are essentially parables that seem to address the immediacy of the world yet point beyond it toward philosophical and eternal values. The result is a conjoining of the real and the ideal, a frequent theme in Spanish literature. Many of these poems bridge the distance between the Spanish Mystics and High Romanticism. Of all his creations, the radiant poems in Alliance and Condemnation offer the best imaginable introduction to his extraordinary life and work. Philip Silver’s translation from the original Spanish is exquisite. His English translation brings both the letter and spirit of Claudio Rodríguez’s poetry to readers with great elegance, sensitivity, and lyricism. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo15660515.html
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:58:22 +0000
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