Figures of Speech

by Lihn, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9780924047176
• ISBN10: 0924047178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-30
• Publisher: Host Pubns

Summary

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Dave Oliphant. Enrique Lihn's writings, both creative and critical, are considered in Chile some of the most significant in the country's distinguished literary history. This bilingual volume is the most complete collection of Lihn's work in English. As well as some of Lihn's familiar poems, this volume includes representative poems from a number of his later books, previously uncollected pieces, and selections from his final moving sequence, Diary of Death.

Table of Contents

Introduction	i
NOTICIAS DE BABILONIA NEWS FROM BABYLON
Retrato	2	(1)
Portrait	3	(1)
Bella epoca	4	(1)
Belle Epoque	5	(7)
Noticias de Babilonia	12	(1)
News From Babylon	13	(9)
FIGURAS DE PALABRAS FIGURES OF SPEECH
Mester de juglaria	22	(1)
Art of Minstrelsy	23	(7)
A Roque Dalton	30	(1)
To Roque Dalton	31	(1)
Figuras de palabras	32	(1)
Figures of Speech	33	(1)
Si se ha de escribir correctamente poesia	34	(1)
If Poetry is to be Written Right	35	(3)
Epoca del dato	38	(1)
Age of Data	39	(1)
Literatura	40	(1)
Literature	41	(3)
Por fuerza mayor	44	(1)
By an Uncontrollable Force	45	(1)
Un mundo de personas que yo ignoro	46	(1)
A World of Persons That I Do Not Know	47	(1)
Yo le dije al autor de estos sonetos	48	(1)
To the Author of These Sonnets I Said	49	(1)
Los aparentes dias de verano	50	(1)
Summer's Apparent Days	51	(1)
Mausoleo	52	(1)
Mausoleum	53	(1)
Que seria de mi sin mis palabras	54	(1)
What Would I Be Without My Words	55	(1)
Sueno y variaciones	56	(1)
Dream and Variations	57	(1)
El muro de los lamentos	58	(1)
The Wailing Wall	59	(5)
EL ARTE Y LA VIDA ART AND LIFE
El arte y la vida	64	(1)
Art and Life	65	(1)
El amanecer 1809	66	(1)
Dawn 1809	67	(1)
J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)	68	(1)
J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)	69	(1)
Olana	70	(1)
Olana	71	(7)
Kandinsky 1904	78	(1)
Kandinsky 1904	79	(1)
Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub	80	(1)
Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub	81	(1)
Monet's Years at Giverny	82	(1)
Monet's Years at Giverny	83	(3)
Villa Cancer	86	(1)
Cancer Villa	87	(1)
Para Adriana	88	(1)
For Adriana	89	(5)
MONSTRUO DE BROOKLYN BROOKLYN MONSTER
Europeos	94	(1)
Europeans	95	(5)
Para Rigas Kappatos	100	(1)
For Rigas Kappatos	101	(5)
Monstruo de Brooklyn	106	(1)
Brooklyn Monster	107	(1)
El Hudson en el camino de Poughkeepsie	108	(1)
The Hudson on the Way to Poughkeepsie	109	(1)
Tulipanes de Toronto	110	(1)
The Tulips of Toronto	111	(1)
La risa abunda en boca de los jovenes	112	(1)
Laughter Abounds in the Mouths of Youths	113	(1)
1985 La despedida 2	114	(1)
1985 Farewell 2	115	(5)
Una cancion para Texas	120	(1)
A Song for Texas	121	(1)
Voy por las calles de un Madrid secreto	122	(1)
I Pass Through the Streets of a Secret Madrid	123	(1)
Cocina gallega	124	(1)
Galician Kitchen	125	(1)
Del hombre y del granito	126	(1)
Of Man and Granite	127	(1)
Carballo	128	(1)
Oak	129	(1)
Cafe Derby	130	(1)
The Derby Cafe	131	(3)
LAS SIRENAS THE SIRENS
Yo el libro	134	(1)
I the Book	135	(1)
Larga distancia	136	(1)
Long Distance	137	(1)
Rueda de la fortuna	138	(1)
Wheel of Fortune	139	(1)
Contraguerrilla	140	(1)
Counterguerrilla	141	(1)
Eco de otra sonata	142	(1)
Echo of Another Sonata	143	(1)
Conveniencias del otono	144	(1)
Advantages of Autumn	145	(1)
Las sirenas	146	(1)
The Sirens	147	(3)
LOS QUE VAN A MORIR THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO DIE
Kafka	150	(1)
Kafka	151	(1)
Nada tiene que ver el dolor con el dolor	152	(1)
Pain Has Nothing To Do With Pain	153	(5)
Limitaciones del lenguaje	158	(1)
The Limitations of Language	159	(1)
Contra los pensamientos negros	160	(1)
Against Black Thoughts	161	(1)
La muerte en la opera	162	(1)
Death in the Opera	163	(1)
El aprendiz del arte de morir	164	(1)
Apprentice to the Art of Dying	165	(3)
La ciudad del Yo	168	(1)
The City of the I	169	(1)
La muerte es un buen amigo comun	170	(1)
Death Is a Good Friend We Share in Common	171	(1)
Quien de todos en mi es el que tanto	172	(1)
Who of All Those in Me Is the One	173	(1)
Buen despilfarrador	174	(1)
The Good Spendthrift	175	(1)
La mano artificial	176	(1)
The Artificial Hand	177	(1)
Autocine	178	(1)
Self-Made Cinema	179	(1)
Los que van a morir	180	(1)
Those Who Are Going to Die	181	(1)
Nadie escribe desde el mas alla	182	(1)
Nobody Writes From the Other Side	183	(1)
Que otra cosa se puede decir de la muerte	184	(1)
What Else Can Be Said of Death	185	(1)
Animita de exito	186	(1)
Charmed Roadside Memorial	187