Unthinkable Tenderness

by Gelman, Juan; Lindgren, Joan; Galeano, Eduardo

• ISBN13: 9780520205871
• ISBN10: 0520205871
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

Summary

Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership. Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were "disappeared"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss. "remembering their little bones when it rains/ the compantilde;erosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces"--fromRemembering Their Little Bones

Table of Contents

Foreword
Editor's Preface
From Interruptions I	p. 1
Foreword	p. 3
Relations	p. 7
Somata	p. 9
Confidences	p. 10
Noises	p. 11
Clarities	p. 12
Facts	p. 13
What They Don't Know	p. 15
Deaths	p. 16
Graces	p. 17
Sheets	p. 18
Arte Poetica	p. 19
Notes	p. 21
Note I	p. 23
Note XII	p. 24
Note XVII	p. 25
Note XVIII	p. 26
Note XX	p. 27
Note XXI	p. 28
Note XXV	p. 29
Open Letter	p. 31
XIII	p. 33
XVII	p. 34
So Gently	p. 37
Alone	p. 39
Still Harboring	p. 40
Use the Poor	p. 41
Killing the General Defeat	p. 42
Remembering Their Little Bones	p. 43
They Are Waiting	p. 44
They Wait	p. 45
Commentaries	p. 47
Commentary I (saint teresa)	p. 49
Commentary VI (saint teresa)	p. 50
Commentary XX	p. 51
From Interruptions II	p. 53
Under Foreign Rain (Footnotes to Defeat)	p. 55
I	p. 57
II	p. 59
III	p. 60
IV	p. 61
V	p. 62
VI	p. 63
VII	p. 64
VIII	p. 65
IX	p. 66
X	p. 67
XI	p. 68
XII	p. 69
XIV	p. 70
XV	p. 71
XVI	p. 72
XVII	p. 73
XVIII	p. 74
XIX	p. 75
XX	p. 77
XXI	p. 78
XXII	p. 80
XXIII	p. 81
XXIV	p. 82
XXV	p. 83
XXVI	p. 84
Southward	p. 87
The Table	p. 89
Somewhere Else	p. 91
You Are	p. 93
Southward	p. 94
Flights	p. 96
The Poems of Jose Galvan	p. 97
Southern Latitudes	p. 99
Nightingales Again	p. 100
I, Too, Write Stories	p. 102
Other Writing	p. 104
Kingdoms	p. 105
The End	p. 107
Cherries	p. 109
The Poems of Julio Greco	p. 111
Truths	p. 113
Women	p. 117
On Poetry	p. 119
They Say ...	p. 121
Literatures	p. 123
Poetry Forever	p. 125
Sayings	p. 127
Poetry Once More	p. 129
Aunt Fran's Bunuelos	p. 131
Certain Flights	p. 133
Dampnesses	p. 136
Pharmacies	p. 138
Tides	p. 141
An Exhibition of a Few Paintings	p. 143
The Beauty of All Creation	p. 146
Com/positions	p. 149
Exergue	p. 151
The Cradle	p. 152
Psalm	p. 154
What Will Come to Pass	p. 155
The Expulsed	p. 156
The Prisoner	p. 157
Song	p. 158
The Battle	p. 159
In Prison	p. 160
That	p. 161
Rain	p. 163
Children	p. 164
Handkerchiefs	p. 166
The Deluded	p. 167
Letter to My Mother	p. 169
Epilogue: An Open Letter to My Grandson or Granddaughter	p. 181
A Chronology of Argentina's Dirty War	p. 185
Juan Gelman's Life and Works	p. 189
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