Solar Poems

by Homero Aridjis (Author), George McWhirter (Translator)

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2010
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A book of cosmological surrealism in the tradition of Octavio Paz, Solar Poems is the first English translation of a single volume of poems by Mexico's famed poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis, exploring political consciousness as well as visionary psychological themes. President emeritus of International PEN, the prolific poet is Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO. Poemas solares (Solar Poems) was published in 2005. Translator George McWhirter won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Catalan Poems, the F.R. Scott Prize for Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novel Cage. He is Vancouver's first Poet Laureate. Homero Aridjis is a profoundly ecological poet who has put his fame and time where his principles are, fighting to save the monarch butterflies that winter by the billions in the mountains of his native Michoacan, the sea turtle that lays her eggs on Caribbean beaches, and the gray whale that calves in the lagoons of Baja California. Aridjis writes to the point, with an open eye and a sense of humor ... --John Oliver Simon, Poetry Flash

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A book of cosmological surrealism in the tradition of Octavio Paz, Solar Poems is the first English translation of a single volume of poems by Mexico's famed poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis, exploring political consciousness as well as visionary psychological themes. President emeritus of International PEN, the prolific poet is Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO. Poemas solares (Solar Poems) was published in 2005. Translator George McWhirter won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Catalan Poems, the F.R. Scott Prize for Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novel Cage. He is Vancouver's first Poet Laureate. Homero Aridjis is a profoundly ecological poet who has put his fame and time where his principles are, fighting to save the monarch butterflies that winter by the billions in the mountains of his native Michoacan, the sea turtle that lays her eggs on Caribbean beaches, and the gray whale that calves in the lagoons of Baja California. Aridjis writes to the point, with an open eye and a sense of humor ... --John Oliver Simon, Poetry Flash

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
Edition: Bilingual
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 01 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 0872865045
ISBN 13: 9780872865044
Book Overview: We'll focus on media interested in poetry and poetry in translation. Translator George McWhirter is the Poet Laureate of Vancouver, so we'll target appropriate media in BC and elsewhere in Canada. Print: American Poet, American Poetry Review, Bloomsbury Review, Bookforum, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Metamorphoses, New Yorker, Oregonian, Paris Review, Slate, Poetry Flash, Poetry Magazine, Poets and Writers Magazine, St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter, Texas Observer, Two Lines, World Literature Today, XCP-Cross Cultural Poetics Online: completereview.com, conversationalreading.com, poems.com (Poetry Daily), readerville.com, three percent/open letter Radio: Pursue literary arts programs around the U.S. and Canada, such as KPFA Berkeley's Cover to Cover, KSFR New Mexico's Poetry Talk, MPR Saint Paul's Midmorning Show Academic: Modern Lang Assn, Assoc. Writers Program

Media Reviews

For 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile : richly textured novel - NY Times Book Review (NY Times Notable Book, 1991) [Aridjis'] selected poems leave a stunning record of images caught between the traumas and the paradises of the past. - Cold Mountain Review

Author Bio

Aridjis has published thirty-eight books. English translations include novels Persephone, 1492, and The Lord of the Last Days, the poetry collections Blue Spaces and Exaltation of Light, and a bilingual selected poems Eyes to See Otherwise. Poemas Solares (Solar Poems) was published in 2005. President Emeritus of International PEN, he is Mexico's Ambassador to UNESCO. George McWhirter was born in Belfast. His Catalan Poems won Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco, the F.R. Scott Prize, and his novel Cage, the Ethel Wilson Prize. Recent poetry includes The Incorrection and The Anachronicles. Blackbird Theatre produced his version of Euripides's Hecuba in Vancouver, 2007. He is Vancouver's first Poet Laureate.