Witness

by Benedetti, Mario; Popkin, Louise B.; Randall, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781935210313
• ISBN10: 1935210319
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-20
• Publisher: White Pine Pr

Summary

"It gives me great pleasure to see the work of Benedetti, one of the great poets of our language, made available to US readers in Popkin's wonderful translations. Her carefully crafted adaptations of Mario's poems convey all the wisdom, nostalgia, and irony that inform his verses in language that retains their musicality. Anyone who has translated poetry will appreciate what an accomplishment that represents."--Claribel Alegria Mario Benedetti(1920-2009) is regarded as one of Latin America's most important twentieth-century writers and one of Uruguay's most revered writers of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and essays.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Translator's Note	p. 21
Epigraph (Haiku Nook, no. 115)	p. 26
Sólo mientras tanto / Only Meanwhile (1948-50)
Nocturno	p. 28
Nocturne	p. 29
Asunción de ti	p. 32
Taking Hold of You	p. 33
Poemas de la oficina / Office Poems (1953-56)
Sueldo	p. 38
Payday	p. 39
El Nuevo	p. 40
The New Guy	p. 41
Verano	p. 44
Summer	p. 45
Dactilógrafo	p. 46
Typist	p. 47
Angelus	p. 50
Angelus	p. 51
Poemas del hoy por hoy /Poems for the Here and Now (1958-61)
Vuelo 202	p. 52
Flight 202	p. 53
Cumpleaños en Manhattan	p. 54
Birthday in Manhattan	p. 55
Un padrenuestro latinoamericano	p. 64
A Latin American Lord's Prayer	p. 65
El ángel	p. 70
The Angel	p. 71
Noción de patria / When I Say Patria (1962-63)
Noción de patria	p. 72
When I Say Patria	p. 73
Obituario con hurras	p. 78
Obituary with Cheers	p. 79
Turning point	p. 82
Turning Point	p. 83
Ala izquierda del roble	p. 84
To the Left of the Oak Tree	p. 85
Próximo prójimo/Friends and Fellow Creatures (1964-65)
Socorro y nadie	p. 94
Futile Cry for Help	p. 95
Currículum	p. 96
Vitae	p. 97
La trampa	p. 98
The Hoax	p. 99
Todos conspiramos	p. 100
We're All Conspiring	p. 101
Contra los puentes levadizos /Down with Drawbridges (1965-66)
Contra los puentes levadizos	p. 104
Down with Drawbridges	p. 105
A ras de sueño / At Dream Level (l967)
Consternados, rabiosos	p. 114
In Grief and Rage	p. 115
Quemar las naves /Burning Our Boats (1968-69)
Grietas	p. 120
Rifts	p. 121
Quemar las naves	p. 124
Burning Our Boats	p. 125
Letras de emergencia /Emergency Poems (1969-73)
Me sirve y no me sirve	p. 128
My Way	p. 129
El verbo	p. 132
The Word	p. 133
Casi un réquiem	p. 136
Something of a Requiem	p. 137
Victoria del vencido	p. 138
Triumph of the Defeated	p. 139
Torturador y espejo	p. 142
Torturer with Mirror	p. 143
Poemas de otros/Poems of Others (l973-74)
Hombre preso que mira a su hijo	p. 144
Prisoner Looking at His Son	p. 145
Táctica y estrategia	p. 152
Tactics and Strategy	p. 153
La otra copa del brindis	p. 156
Drinking a Toast	p. 157
No te salves	p. 160
Don't Play It Safe	p. 161
La casa y el ladrillo / The House and the Brick (1976-77)
La casay elladrillo (extracto)	p. 164
The House and the Brick (excerpt)	p. 165
Cotidianas /Everyday Poems (1978-79)
Piedritas en la ventana	p. 170
Pebbles at My Window	p. 171
Esa batalla	p. 172
That Battle	p. 173
Grillo constante	p. 174
Constant Cricket	p. 175
Lento pero viene	p. 176
Slowly but Surely	p. 177
Me voy con la lagartija	p. 180
I'm Off with the Lizard	p. 181
El paraíso	p. 182
Heaven	p. 183
Botella al mar	p. 184
Bottle Out to Sea	p. 185
Cotidiana 4	p. 186
Everyday Poem 4	p. 187
Viento del exilio/Wind of Exile (1980-81)
Talantes	p. 190
Moods	p. 191
Allende	p. 192
Allende	p. 193
Abrigo	p. 196
Shelter	p. 197
El jubilado	p. 198
The Pensioner	p. 199
Ex presos	p. 200
Ex-Prisoners	p. 201
Geografias/ Geographies (1982-84)
Eso dicen	p. 202
From What They Tell Me	p. 203
Desaparecidos	p. 204
Desaparecidos	p. 205
Preguntas al azar/Random Questions (1986)
Preguntas al azar (I)	p. 208
Random Questions (I)	p. 209
Rescates	p. 214
Salvage	p. 215
Infancias	p. 216
Childhoods	p. 217
Historia de vampiros	p. 222
A Tale of Vampires	p. 223
Soy mi huésped	p. 226
I'm My Guest	p. 227
La acústica de Epidauros	p. 230
The Acoustics at Epidaurus	p. 231
Yesterday y mañana / Yesterday and Tomorrow (1988)
Tormenta	p. 234
Storm	p. 235
Quimera	p. 236
Delirium	p. 237
Mañana	p. 238
Tomorrow	p. 239
Cavilación del centinela	p. 242
The Sentry's Foreboding	p. 243
Epigrama	p. 244
Epigram	p. 245
Despistes y franquezas/ Distractions and Straight Talk (1990)
El odio viene y va	p. 246
Hatred Comes and Goes	p. 247
La roca	p. 248
Rock	p. 249
Seísmo	p. 250
Earth Tremor	p. 251
Las soledades de Babel/Babel's Solitudes (1991)
Mulato	p. 252
Mulatto	p. 253
Pero vengo	p. 256
But Here I Am	p. 257
Somos la catástrofe	p. 258
We're a Disaster	p. 259
Las soledades de Babel	p. 262
Babel's Solitudes	p. 263
Distancias	p. 266
At a Distance	p. 267
Utopías	p. 268
Utopias	p. 269
El olvido está lleno de memoria/Forgetting Is Filled with Memories (1995)
Ese gran simulacro	p. 270
That Colossal Pretense	p. 271
El porvenir de mi pasado	p. 274
The Future of My Past	p. 275
Sequía	p. 278
Drought	p. 279
Irrespirable	p. 280
Unbreathable	p. 281
Ahí nomás	p. 282
Right There	p. 283
Despabílate amor	p. 284
Wake Up Love	p. 285
Mercaderes	p. 286
Money-changers	p. 287
La vida ese paréntesis / That Parenthesis Called Life (1998)
Como si nada	p. 288
As If It Didn't Matter	p. 289
Sonata para adiós y flauta	p. 292
Sonata for Farewell and Flute	p. 293
Soliloquio del desaparecido	p. 296
The Desaparecido's Soliloquy	p. 297
Che 1997	p. 302
Che 1997	p. 303
Lluvia	p. 304
Rain	p. 305
Rincón de haikus / Haiku Nook (1999)
5 Haikus (selección)	p. 306
5 Haikus (selection)	p. 307
El mundo que respiro/The World I Breathe (200l)
Mundo que se deshace	p. 308
The World Is Falling Apart	p. 309
Soledades	p. 310
Solitudes	p. 311
Basura	p. 312
Garbage	p. 313
El mundo que respiro	p. 314
The World I Breathe	p. 315
Cierre	p. 318
Closing	p. 319
Insomnios y duermevelas / Tossing and Turning (2002)
Asamblea	p. 320
Roster	p. 321
Idilio	p. 322
Idyll	p. 323
Poemas a la intemperie	p. 324
Outdoor Poems	p. 325
Existir todavía/Still Around (2004)
Infancias	p. 326
Childhoods	p. 327
Fantasma	p. 328
Ghost	p. 329
Defensa Propia /Self-Defense (2005)
Mundo enfermo	p. 330
This Sick World	p. 331
Ausencias	p. 334
Absences	p. 335
Como un gallo	p. 336
Like a Rooster	p. 337
Sur	p. 338
South	p. 339
14 Bagatelas (selección)	p. 340
14 Bagatelles (selection)	p. 341
Adioses y bienvenidas/ Goodbyes and Hellos (2006)
Brindis (I)	p. 342
Toast (I)	p. 343
Calles	p. 346
Streets	p. 347
Testamento	p. 348
Last Will and Testament	p. 349
3 Haikus (selección)	p. 350
3 Haikus (selection)	p. 351
Nuevo rincón de haikus/New Haiku Nook (2006)
5 Haikus (selección)	p. 352
5 Haikus (selection)	p. 353
Canciones del que no canta / Songs from a Sorry Singer (2007)
Soneto con bruja	p. 354
Sonnet with Witch	p. 355
Horizonte	p. 356
Horizon	p. 357
Testigo de uno mismo/Witness to Myself (2008)
Canasta	p. 358
Shopping Basket	p. 359
Libro dos	p. 362
Book Two	p. 363
Biografía para encontrarme /For Who Would Find Me: Biographical Notes (2008)
Paréntesis	p. 364
Parenthesis	p. 365
Mentiras piadosas	p. 366
White Lies	p. 367
Ruta	p. 368
Roadmap	p. 369
No estoy	p. 370
I'm Not Home	p. 371
Palabra	p. 372
Word	p. 373
Endnotes	p. 375
Biographies	p. 380
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