The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work

Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jiménez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements--the wellsprings of any kind of creation--are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.
A treasure for poets and writers, The Complete Perfectionist includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of "becoming" rather than an end product. In these insightful pages, a poet haunted by perfection reveals his methods of writing and revision, and measures the social and ethical dimensions of el trabajo gustoso, or pleasurable work. This revised and expanded edition includes many aphorisms recently published in Spanish and not previously included.

About the author

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University and the author of numerous books on Spanish poetry.

Summary

In a series of aphorisms, this book brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. A treasure for poets and writers, it includes helpful commentary by a noted translator and shows perfection to be a process of "becoming" rather than an end product. It also includes many aphorisms that were published in Spanish.

Product details

• Authors: Juan Ram Jimenez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Juan Ramón Jiménez
• Assisted by: Christopher Maurer (Editor), Christopher Maurer (Translation)
• Publisher: Honey Ink Publishing LLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9780983322009
• ISBN: 978-0-9833220-0-9
• No. of pages: 161
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 202 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies