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Appearing for the first time in English, "Blue Coyote with Guitar and Other Songs", by renowned Mexican poet Juan Bañuelos, creates an alternative poetics that rejects individualism, defies nationalism, and opts for the alterity of the most marginalized social subjects in modern Mexico, the Indigenous population, whose cultures increasingly determine this poetry's vision of the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Juan Bauelos, the Poet as Indigenous
- From Doors of the World
- Images for a Surprise
- Naked First-Born
- This Eve and Its Old Nomads in White
- Diamond Wind
- Tripping Stone
- From I Write on Walls
- Immediate Prophecy
- Endlessly Among Men
- Prehistory
- Stone Song
- With the Rain and Its Pale Sound of Ferns
- Hunger Strike
- From Smoking Mirror
- Phrases
- Definitive Fable
- An Hour in Our Face
- The Desert of the Cross
- Day of the Dead
- The Heart of Us All
- Waiting Room
- A Prisoner Dreams
- Satire with a Waltz Ending
- Unanimous
- Rifle, Leaf Shaking the Entire Tree
- Skin of Time
- Inlet
- So They Might Hear Our Steps
- The Descent on the Moon
- From Random Destination
- Where Stones Move Toward the Day
- Perversity of Separation
- Coitus Non Interruptus
- The Suicide
- From Off the Record
- Off the Record
- From Blue Coyote with Guitar
- Blue Coyote with Guitar
- Palimpsest
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter XIII: Owl Puzzle
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XIX
- From Neighborswithnocondos
- Melancholy in the Scale of Being
- Aegean Sea Canticle
- No One Lives in My Country Now
- From Nomads of the Aurora Borealis
- Pilgrims of Oxchuc
- Mutations
- The Mail of Forests
- Pap Solito
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Juan Bañuelos (Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, 1932) is one of today’s most popular Mexican poets. He has published eleven books of poetry and has received the Chiapas Prize (Mexico, 1984), the Palermo Prize (Italy, 1987), and the José Lezama Lima Prize (Cuba, 2004), among others. He is also a renowned editor and university professor. His poems have been translated into numerous languages, and now here, for the first time, English.
Zusammenfassung
Appearing for the first time in English, Blue Coyote with Guitar and Other Songs, by renowned Mexican poet Juan Bañuelos, creates an alternative poetics that rejects individualism, defies nationalism, and opts for the alterity of the most marginalized social subjects in modern Mexico.
