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Bilingual • Latin America • Poetry
The River Is Wide/El rio es ancho: Twenty Mexican Poets, a Bilingual Anthology
Edited by Marlon Fick Translated by Marlon Fick
This bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry reflects a broad continuum of styles and offers generous selections from the writings of twenty poets. Marlon Fick worked directly with each poet and selected the poems to be included here on the basis of aesthetic merit, the authors' reputations, and the representational quality of the work with regard to Mexican literature.Fick chose to include only twenty poets to allow the incorporation of generous selections from the writings of each. He includes long poems such as Alí Chumacero's "Responso del peregrino," a poem on the scale of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The oldest poet is Chumacero, who is in his eighties, and the youngest, Hernan Bravo Varela, winner of Mexico's National Prize for Young Poets, is in his twenties.
The other Mexican poets are Coral Bracho, Héctor Carreto, Elsa Cross, Juan Cú, Jorge Ruiz Esparza, Jorge Esquinca, Gloria Gervitz, Francisco Hernández, Elva Macias, Myriam Moscona, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Oscar Oliva, Jaime Sabines, Tomás Segovia, Lillian van den Broeck, Verónica Volkow, Francisco Ávila Fuentes, and Bernardo Emilio Pérez.
"What a wonderful anthology. Marlon Fick has picked well, and he has translated with an even - and bold - hand. I can't recommend it highly enough." - Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway
From Mexican poet Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Something has broken in me this morning,
walking from face to face, asking for
the one who lives inside.
And it chatters and whines and twists me
down to the tongue of the shoe.
And I have to bear it
like men so much poverty, so much darkness
on the way to old age, so many patches,
never invisible, on the skin of the soul.
Algo se me ha quebrado esta mañana
de andar, de cara en cara, preguntando
por el que vive dentro.
Y habla y se queja y se me tuerce
hasta la lengua del zapato,
por tener que aguantar como los hombres
tanta pobreza, tanto oscuro
camino a la vejez; tantos remiendos,
nunca invisibles, en la piel del alma.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Marlon L. Fick is a poet, playwright, and novelist who lives in Mexico City. He has a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Kansas.ACCLAIM
"Fick brings together for the first time the unheard voices of contemporary Mexican Poetry in a new bilingual anthology The River is Wide/ El río es ancho. . . The Poets in The River is Wide represent a diverse cross-section of Mexican literata."
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Ruidoso News, NM
"This book constitutes a superb investment in the translated poetry of
Ruben Bonifaz, Nuno, Coral Bracho, Elsa Cross, Juan Cu, Jaime Sabines
and 15 other writers well worth our time."
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Kansas City Star
"...a valuable source for libraries and all readers of poetry and literature in translation."
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MultiCultural Review
"What a wonderful anthology. Marlon Fick has picked well, and he has
tranlated with an even--and bold--hand. I can't recommend it highly
enough."
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Luis A. Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway
"The River is Wide is a joy - the poems included are diverse in form and voice and uniformly excellent."
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Galatea
"The River is Wide should stand for decades as the most
significant bilingual anthology of Mexican poetry ever published.
Indispensable to this refreshing literary event are 20 talented poets
and one intrepid editor, Marlon L. Fick, whose accurate, lyrical
translations swing open a passageway to discovering a nearly unknown
country of poetry. . . A remarkable rescue of late 20th-century Mexican
poetry. Those who can read these Spanish originals, as well as Fick's
fine translations, will be doubly grateful for this gift of discovery."
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San Antonio Express-News
6 x 9 in. 448 pages
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