
Migrations
Poem, 1976-2020
NYRB Poets (Publisher)
Published on 2. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-68137-570-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Forty-three years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gervitz's book is an epic journey in free verse through the individual and collective memories of Jewish women emigrants from Eastern Europe, a conversation that ranges across two thousand years of poetry, a bridge that spans the oracles of ancient Greece and the markets of modern Mexico, a prayer that blends the Jewish and Catholic liturgies, a Mexican woman's reclamation through poetry of her own voice and erotic power. Gervitz's work has been compared to the works of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, and Guillâen"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-570-0 (9781681375700)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gloria Gervitz, translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer