Amorgos Notebook
Published on 13. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-84861-483-3 (ISBN)
Description
Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgos) is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as the winner is chosen by her peers in the literary world. Elsa Cross' work over the past several decades has demonstrated a considerable fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of remarkable ancient sculptures, and spectacular terrain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
188 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-483-3 (9781848614833)
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Elsa Cross was born in Mexico City in 1946. The majority of her work has been published in 2013 in her Collected Poems, from the Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico City. Her book El divan de Antar (1990) was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesia Aguascalientes (1989), and Moira (1993) won the Premio Internacional de Poesia Jaime Sabines (1992), both in Mexico. Jaguar (2002), was inspired by different symbols and places of ancient Mexico. Some more recent books form a trilogy: Los suenos - Elegias, Ultramar - Odas, and El vino de las cosas, Ditirambos.
Books in other countries include a wide selection of her poetry, Miroir au soleil (Brussels, 1996) translated into French by Fernand Verhesen with a foreword by Octavio Paz, and other titles published in Canada and Spain. Her poems have been translated into twelve languages and published in magazines and more than sixty anthologies in different countries. She has also published essays. She has an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she holds a professorship and teaches Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Mythology.
In 2008 Elsa Cross was awarded the most prestigious poetry prize in Mexico, the Xavier Villurrutia Prize, an award that she shared with Pura Lopez-Colome.
Books in other countries include a wide selection of her poetry, Miroir au soleil (Brussels, 1996) translated into French by Fernand Verhesen with a foreword by Octavio Paz, and other titles published in Canada and Spain. Her poems have been translated into twelve languages and published in magazines and more than sixty anthologies in different countries. She has also published essays. She has an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she holds a professorship and teaches Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Mythology.
In 2008 Elsa Cross was awarded the most prestigious poetry prize in Mexico, the Xavier Villurrutia Prize, an award that she shared with Pura Lopez-Colome.