{"product_id":"the-poetess-counts-to-100-and-bows-out-selected-poems-by-ana-enriqueta-teran-paperback","title":"The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna Enriqueta Terán\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarcel Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Enriqueta Terán is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted impression of a uniquely intense imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This bilingual edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of corresponding force. It invites readers to enter Terán's world--a world at once strongly Venezuelan and universally human, imbued with great beauty, sardonic humor, pitiless compassion, lucid wisdom, and joyful affirmation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Selected from several volumes of Terán's work, these poems span half a century of composition and show an extraordinary range in both form and substance. Some are written in closed forms, some in free verse. Some are carefully evocative representations of the landscapes and cityscapes that have nourished the poet's intelligence and imagination. Others are dramatic character studies. All are infused with Terán's rare sensibility and realized through language that manages to be at once graceful, urgent, and explosive. This volume is a treasure for all lovers of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeal Struck with Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How much sweetness to make right the night\u003cbr\u003e and this clutch of anemones\u003cbr\u003e near thin smooth consoling stones, \u003cbr\u003e stones havens of southern weather.\u003cbr\u003e Of a woman who watches Cepheids quaver\u003cbr\u003e among lightbursting mangroves.\u003cbr\u003e Of a woman who offers cats-eyes and clematis\u003cbr\u003e only, Islands, for the sake of setting right\u003cbr\u003e her deal struck with happiness.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this attractive anthology, Terán discloses a powerful and grand spirit, whether addressing her mother, her eagle, her rivers, or her dead brother; the idiom varies from the freedoms of early modernism to formal sonnets to the 'old woman's toys' of her final tercets, but the feelings are always dense with loved objects and local solicitude.\"\u003cb\u003e--Richard Howard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Above all, the poetry of Ana Enriqueta Terán transmits movement and contrasting sound patterns. In his dynamic and often inspired translations, Marcel Smith recovers for us the sprung rhythms and eccentric visual shifts in Terán's poetry. Smith has taken the risky step of translating and transforming to capture an extraordinarily complex and dense poetry, one with few equivalents even in Spanish.\"\u003cb\u003e--Gwen Kirkpatrick, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna Enriqueta Terán\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Venezuela's best-known poets and has published more than a dozen books of poetry. She was named Doctora Honoris Causa by the University of Carabobo and, in 1989, was awarded her country's highest literary honor, the Premio Nacional de Literatura. Now in her eighties, she is writing her autobiography to be published only after her death. \u003cb\u003eMarcel Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He has published translations of Spanish poems in a number of journals. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.62 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48902587121913,"sku":"9780691096728","price":56.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/KXnz6pWoc_9780691096728.webp?v=1787766739","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-poetess-counts-to-100-and-bows-out-selected-poems-by-ana-enriqueta-teran-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}