Dark Times Filled With Light

by Gelman, Juan; St. Martin, Hardie; Pines, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781934824689
• ISBN10: 1934824682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-20
• Publisher: Open Letter

Summary

Dark Times Filled with Light presents poems selected from nearly forty years of work by the Argentine poet Juan Gelman, translated by the late Hardie St. Martin. Although virtually unknown in English literary circles, Juan Gelman is a significant contemporary Argentine intellectual figure and one of the most read and influential poets in the Spanish language. Perennially on the short list of Nobel Prize candidates, Gelman has won numerous international prizes, including the Juan Rulfo Prize (2000) and the Cervantes Prize (2007)."The most coherent, and also the most daring, participatory repertoire (in spite of its inevitable wells of solitude), and ultimately the one most suited to its environment, that Argentine poetry has today." -Mario Benedetti

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
From Violin and Other Questions (1956)
Watching People Walk Along	p. 5
From The Name of the Game (1956-1958)
I Sit Here Like an Invalid	p. 9
Strike at the Construction Site	p. 10
From One Man's Wake (1961)
One Man's Wake	p. 13
The Art of Poetry	p. 15
Winter	p. 16
The Thief	p. 17
The Girl on the Balcony	p. 18
From Gotán (1962)
Gotán	p. 21
Stuck in Paris	p. 22
A Woman and a Man	p. 24
The End	p. 25
From Colera Buey (1964-1971)
For the Time Being	p. 29
Friends	p. 31
Hymn of Victory (In Certain Circumstances)	p. 32
Another May	p. 33
Questions	p. 34
From John Wendell's Poems (1965-1968)
XVII: At Daybreak	p. 37
CCLXI: These Poems	p. 38
CHI: I Saw My Country's Map in Yellow One Day	p. 39
From Dom Pero's Poems (1965-1968)
CDLXXXI: In a River Five Leagues Wide at Its Narrowest Point	p. 43
From Yamanacuchi's Poems (1968)
IV: The Sun on the Day's Crest	p. 47
XVI: He Was Born on the Brink of a Disastrous Day	p. 48
XX: Those Who Created God	p. 49
From Sidney West's Poems (1968-1969)
Lament For Gallagher Bentham	p. 53
Lament For Butch Butchanam's Turtle Dove	p. 55
From Relationships (1971-1973)
Snows	p. 59
Recognitions	p. 60
Reds	p. 61
Courage	p. 63
From Facts (1974-1978)
Facts	p. 67
Time Schedules	p. 69
Things They Don't Know	p. 70
Deaths	p. 71
From Notes (1979)
Note III	p. 75
Note V	p. 76
Note XIII	p. 77
From Open Letter (1980)
IV: Crestfallen My Burning Soul	p. 81
XVI: Punishing Loves	p. 82
XX: Early on the Soul Begins to Hurt	p. 83
From If Gently (1980)
If Gently	p. 87
Quiet at Last	p. 88
Walking Now	p. 89
Alone	p. 91
From Commentaries (1978-1979)
commentary I (saint theresa)	p. 95
commentary II (saint theresa)	p. 96
commentary III (saint theresa)	p. 97
commentary IV (saint theresa)	p. 98
commentary VII (saint theresa)	p. 99
commentary XI (hadewijch)	p. 100
commentary XVII	p. 101
commentary XIX	p. 102
commentary XX	p. 103
commentary XXVIII (saint John of the cross)	p. 104
commentary XXXVII	p. 105
commentary LXIII (van gogh)	p. 106
From Citations (1979)
citation I (saint theresa)	p. 109
citation IV (saint theresa)	p. 110
citation VI (saint theresa)	p. 111
citation XV (saint theresa)	p. 112
citation XXXV (saint theresa)	p. 113
From Under Foreign Rain (footnotes to a defeat) (1980)
I	p. 117
II	p. 119
XII	p. 120
XVI	p. 121
From Southward (1981-1982)
What Have They Done	p. 125
You Taste	p. 126
From Jose Galván's Poems (1981)
Rodolfo Said It	p. 131
Awakening	p. 133
Now	p. 134
Nests	p. 136
Other Writings	p. 137
You	p. 138
From The End (1981-1982)
Fuoco	p. 141
From Julio Greco's Poems (1981)
The Beauty of All Things Created	p. 145
From That (1983-1984)
Rain	p. 149
From Corn/Positions (1984-1985)
Exergue	p. 153
The Door	p. 155
Faithless	p. 156
The Banished	p. 157
The Sleeper	p. 158
The Prisoner	p. 159
The Judgment	p. 160
The Moment	p. 161
Moments During the Battle of Alfuente	p. 162
The Jasmine	p. 163
Invitation	p. 164
On Learning That My Enemy Had Died	p. 165
The Phoenix	p. 167
When	p. 168
From Announcements (1985)
Each Time I Go Down the Rue Des Arts and April	p. 171
From Letter to My Mother (1984-1987)
i received your letter 20 days after your death and	p. 175
did cancer do it?	p. 175
you / who held off your death so long	p. 175
we seldom wrote each other during these years of exile	p. 175
i weighed 5.5 kilos at birth	p. 176
are those the ghosts i haunt myself with now?	p. 176
you always knew	p. 177
what oblivion is ever peace?	p. 177
and this afternoon / isn't it full of you?	p. 178
through you i came to the beauty of the day	p. 178
From The Wages of the Profane (1984-1992)
The Animal	p. 183
Courage	p. 184
The Word	p. 185
Like	p. 186
Young Venetian Lady's Dürer Portrait Revisited	p. 187
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