{"product_id":"9781845233563-countersong-to-walt-whitman","title":"Countersong to Walt Whitman","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA bilingual edition\u003cbr\u003eMir's poetry achieves a rare, exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics, of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama, the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America, its landscape, peoples, and societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published by Azul Editions in 1993, \u003cem\u003eCountersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is the only book-length collection of Mir's poetry in English translation. The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s: “Countersong to Walt Whitman”; “There Is a Country in the World”; “If Somebody Wants to Know Which Is My Country”; “To the Battleship \u003cem\u003eIntrepid”\u003c\/em\u003e; “Not One Step Back”; “Amen to Butterflies”; “Concerto of Hope for the Left Hand”; “Meditation on the Shores of Evening.” The introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of \u003cem\u003eCaribbean Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e (Peepal Tree Press), and foreword by Jean Franco, author of \u003cem\u003eCruel Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e (Duke University Press), enable a broader appreciation for the personal context and general impact of Mir's work. A selected bibliography of works by and about the poet, including an accounting of the prose he has published as a novelist, author of short stories, essayist, and historian, provides readers with ample resources for further appreciation of Mir's achievement. In his introduction, Torres-Saillant emphasizes: “The present bilingual edition. will give both Spanish- and English-speaking readers. the opportunity to recognize themselves in the poetic visage of one of the most authentic literary artists to have come from the Caribbean.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the first publication, Roberto Márquez stated in the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e: “The publication, in bilingual format, of this first book-length anthology of work by the Dominican Republic's internationally acclaimed and locally celebrated National Poet is an event—long anticipated, too long delayed. Colleague, contemporary, and the equal in lyric vitality, epic ambition, and communal significance to Pablo Neruda or Nicolás Guillén, Mir remains, with Martinique's Aimé Césaire, perhaps the most masterfully elegant and majestic among the living voices of a generation that boasts more than its share of world-class poets. [Mir's] poetry achieves a rare, exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics, of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama, the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America, its landscape, peoples, and societies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451603464566,"sku":"9781845233563","price":11.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27426617.jpg?v=1760463145","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781845233563-countersong-to-walt-whitman","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}