Century of the Death of the Rose: Selected PoemsBy the close of the twentieth century, the brilliant poets that had emerged from the Americas included Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro, and Octavio Paz. To this list must be added Jorge Carrera Andrade, an Ecuadorian, who spent his entire adult life traveling as a diplomat, politician, and poet. Despite a brief flurry of attention generated in the United States by his book, Secret Country (New York: MacMillan, 1946), published just after he served as Ecuadorian Consul General to the United States in San Francisco, Andrade has since been forgotten by American anthologists and literary critics. But in fact the late Andrade was a leading figure in Latin American letters. This volume of his poetry was selected and translated by Steven Ford Brown and is presented in both Spanish and English. Its publication coincides with a UNESCO event remembering Andrade. |
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... camino . Redobla en las orejas el viento tambor . Corren en fila india los árboles del cerro . Echa su lazo de hielo un aullido a la garganta del silencio . Con su peineta de luminarias la primera casa del pueblo . Han venido los peones ...
... camino . Redobla en las orejas el viento tambor . Corren en fila india los árboles del cerro . Echa su lazo de hielo un aullido a la garganta del silencio . Con su peineta de luminarias la primera casa del pueblo . Han venido los peones ...
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... camino que entra a cada morada , el camino que fluye debajo de los carros , las aguas que pretenden ser las mismas que ya pasaron antes , la tierra de animales y legumbres con lágrimas donde voy a encender el día con mis manos . I bring ...
... camino que entra a cada morada , el camino que fluye debajo de los carros , las aguas que pretenden ser las mismas que ya pasaron antes , la tierra de animales y legumbres con lágrimas donde voy a encender el día con mis manos . I bring ...
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... camino del sol appears in Quito . President Velasco Ibarra names Carrera Andrade ambassador for Special Mission to governments of Chile , Argentina , and Brazil . Participates in successful negotiation of Treaty of Rio de Janeiro ...
... camino del sol appears in Quito . President Velasco Ibarra names Carrera Andrade ambassador for Special Mission to governments of Chile , Argentina , and Brazil . Participates in successful negotiation of Treaty of Rio de Janeiro ...
Contents
Biografía Biography | 28 |
Discurso Anónimo | 42 |
Poder de la Palabra | 48 |
Copyright | |
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