Unthinkable Tenderness Selected Poems Juan Gelman 9780520918023 0520918029

Unthinkable Tenderness Selected Poems Juan Gelman (Editor) – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780520918023, 0520918029

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• ISBN 10: 0520918029
• ISBN 13: 9780520918023
• Author: Joan Lindgren, Juan Gelman

Juan Gelman is Argentina’s leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman’s lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership.

Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were “disappeared”). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman’s Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss.

“remembering their little bones when it rains/ the compañerosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces”—from Remembering Their Little Bones

Table contents:

Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI

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