Almost All the Music Casi Toda La Música

by González, Ángel; Mares, E. A.

• ISBN13: 9780916727291
• ISBN10: 0916727297
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Wings Press

Summary

Devoted to musical themes, this new facing-page English and Spanish translated collection from one of the 20th-century's major Spanish poets makes evident the author's encyclopedic musical knowledge, as well as his deep empathy for the forgotten and downtrodden. Wary of empty abstractions and political ideologies, concern for the the concrete personal and social experience of ordinary people shines throughout these works, which are complemented by a fine lyricism that endows these poems with literary excellence.

Author Biography

Ángel GonzÁlez is the author of Astonishing World and he has won many awards for his poetry, including the Queen Sofia Prize for Ibero-American Poetry in 1996, the Prince of Asturias Literary Prize in 1985, the Premio Internacional Son Latinos in 2004, the Federico García Lorca International Prize for Poetry, and he is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy for literary excellence. E. A. Mares is a poet, translator, essayist, playwright, fiction writer, journalist, and historian. He is the author of There Are Four Wounds, Miguel, The Unicorn Poem, and The Unicorn Poem & Flowers and Songs of Sorrow. They both live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	p. vii
Prologo	p. x
Prologue	p. xi
Voz que soledad sonando	p. 2
Voice Ringing Out Solitude	p. 3
Tras la ventana, el amor	p. 4
Through The Window, Love	p. 5
Final	p. 6
The End	p. 7
Son las gaviotas, amor	p. 8
They're Sea Gulls, My Love	p. 9
Trabaje el aire	p. 10
I Tilled the Air	p. 11
Penultima nostalgia	p. 12
Penultimate Nostalgia	p. 13
Vals de atardecer	p. 22
Late Afternoon Waltz	p. 23
Tango de madrugada	p. 24
Dawn Tango	p. 25
La trompeta (Louis Armstrong)	p. 26
The Trumpet (Louis Armstrong)	p. 27
Cancion para cantar una cancion	p. 30
A Song for Singing a Song	p. 31
Cancion de invierno y de verano	p. 32
Song of Winter and Summer	p. 33
La paloma (Version libre)	p. 34
The Dove (Free verse version)	p. 35
Quinteto enterramiento para cuerda...	p. 38
Burial Quintet...	p. 39
Sonata para violin solo	p. 40
Sonata for Violin Solo	p. 41
Reverbera la musica en los muros	p. 42
Music Echoes Against the Walls	p. 43
Elegia pura	p. 44
Nothing but an Elegy	p. 45
Estoy bartok de todo...	p. 46
I've Had It With Bartok	p. 47
Calambur	p. 48
WordPlay	p. 49
Oda a la noche o letra para tango	p. 50
Ode to the Night or Words for a Tango	p. 51
Crepusculo, Albuquerque, estio	p. 52
Dusk, Albuquerque, Summer	p. 53
Revelacion	p. 54
Revelation	p. 55
Cancion, glosa y cuestiones	p. 56
A Song, Commentary and Questions	p. 57
Dos veces la misma melodia	p. 58
The Same Melody Twice	p. 59
Epilogo	p. 60
Epilogue	p. 61
And Other Poems
Ahi, Donde Fracasan Las Palabras	p. 62
There, Where Words Fail	p. 63
Entonces	p. 64
At That Time	p. 65
Poetica - a la que intento a veces aplicarme	p. 66
Poetics - to which I sometimes try to apply myself	p. 67
Orden (Poetica a lo que otros se aplican)	p. 68
Order (Poetics to which others apply themselves)	p. 69
Contra-Orden (Poetica por la que me pronuncio ciertos dias.)	p. 70
Countermand (Poetics I'm in favor of some days.)	p. 71
Poetica No. 4	p. 72
Poetics No. 4	p. 73
Para que yo me llame Angel Gonzalez	p. 74
For my name to be Angel Gonzalez	p. 75
A La Poesia	p. 76
To Poetry	p. 77
About the Translator	p. 78
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