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Featuring "La Tierra Gir para Acercarnos" (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation of selected poems and prose by Venezuela's leading poet Eugenio Montejo is translated from the original Spanish by Australian poet Peter Boyle.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Eugenio Montejo's Earthdom
- Notes
- Translator's Preface
- The Trees: Selected Poems (1967-2004)
- Los Árboles
- The Trees
- Islandia
- Iceland
- Güigüe 1918
- Güigüe 1918
- El Canto del Gallo
- The Rooster's Song
- La Estatua de Pessoa
- The Statue of Pessoa
- Sobremesa
- Talking Across the Table
- Ítaca
- Ithaca
- La Terredad de un Pájaro
- The Earthdom of a Bird
- Caracas
- Caracas
- Mis Mayores
- My Ancestors
- Mi Amor
- My Love
- Orfeo
- Orpheus
- Caballo Real
- The King's Horse
- Partida
- Departure
- Álbum de Familia
- Family Album
- Dos Rembrandt
- Two Rembrandts
- Hotel Antiguo
- Old Hotel
- Setiembre
- September
- Mare Nostrum
- Mare Nostrum
- Lisboa
- Lisbon
- El Otro
- The Other
- Terredad
- Earthdom
- Amantes
- Lovers
- La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos
- The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer
- La Araña Veloz
- The Nimble Spider
- En el Café
- In the Café
- El Rezagado
- Left Behind
- La Poesía
- Poetry
- El Buey
- The Ox
- La Mesa
- Table
- Mural Escrito por el Viento
- Mural Written by the Wind
- Un Canto para el Tordo
- A Song for the Blackbird
- Despertar
- Waking Up
- La Casa
- The House
- Tiempo Transfigurado
- Transfigured Time
- Manoa
- Manoa
- Canción
- Song
- La Vida
- Life
- Vecindad
- Closeness
- Algunas Palabras
- A Few Words
- Adiós al Siglo XX
- Farewell to the Twentieth Century
- Elegía a la Muerte de mi Hermano Ricardo
- Elegy for the Death of my Brother Ricardo
- El Inocente
- The Simple Minded One
- Nana para Emilio
- Lullaby for Emilio
- Al Fin de Todo
- At the End of Everything
- Noches de Trasatlántico
- Nights on the Transatlantic
- Palabras de Boyero
- The Ox Driver's Words
- La Hora de Hamlet
- Hamlet's Hour
- Un Tordo
- A Thrush
- Adiós a mi Padre
- Saying Goodbye to my Father
- Final de Lluvia
- End of the Rain
- Medianoche
- Midnight
- Los Ausentes
- The Absent Ones
- Al Retorno
- Coming Back
- Canto Lacrado
- Hidden Song
- Opus Número Cero
- Opus Number Zero
- Una Fotografía de 1948
- A Photograph from 1948
- Partitura de la Cigarra
- The Cicada's Score
- Selected Prose Writings
- The White Workshop
- Fragments
- Notes to the Poems
About the author
Eugenio Montejo was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1938. He is the author of numerous books of poetry: Élegos (1967), Muerte y memoria (1972), Algunas palabras (1976), Terredad (1979), Trópico absoluto (1982), Alfabeto del mundo (1986), Adiós al siglo XX (1992), El azul de la tierra (1997), Partitura de la cigarra (1999) and Tiempo Transfigurado (2001). He has also published two collections of essays: La ventana oblicua and El taller blanco. In 1998 Eugenio Montejo received Venezuela's National Prize for Literature. He died in 2008.
