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The New World Written: Selected Poems

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"The poetry of María Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world, transcendent in scope, attentive to the particular, and acutely attuned to the mystery of being. Absorbed by nature's otherness, Baranda seeks to inhabit the voices of the wind, of wings, night, day, and perhaps most keenly, water. These lyrical verses turn repeatedly to the longings and griefs of embodiment: ""What is that God /To be praised with all our sadness / If not love /Or at least the wonder / Of being a body full of blood,"" Baranda asks.

Drawing on epics such as the Aeneid and Beowulf, the mystical verses of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and writers who engage the landscape of shore and sea, from Daniel Defoe to Dylan Thomas, this sweeping collection brings together the finest poems of one of today's most powerful and innovative Mexican writers."

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Series Title

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Call Number

861 BAR t

Publisher

United States of America : Yale University Press., 2021

Collation

xiv, 255 pgs.; 20.5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780300241242

Classification

861

Content Type

text

Media Type

unmediated

Carrier Type

other (unmediated)

Edition

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Subject(s)

Mexican poetry

Specific Detail Info

Translated from the Spanish

Statement of Responsibility

Maria Baranda ; edited by Paul Hoover

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