Elsewhere
Published on 3. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
90 pages
978-1-934824-85-6 (ISBN)
Description
Part of the Poetry Foundation's "Poets of the World" series, featuring poems about places—imaginary or real—the poet isn't from.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester, NY
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
153 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934824-85-6 (9781934824856)
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Person
Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, poet, editor, and translator who won the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism for his edition of Jorge Luis Borges's Selected Non-Fictions. His translations of Octavio Paz are highly regarded, as are his translations of Homero Aridjis, Bei Dao, and others
Here is a complete list of contributors to this collection:
Kotaro Takamura
Vicente Huidobro
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Federico García Lorca
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Xavier Villaurrutia
Bertolt Brecht
Nâzim Hikmet
Fernando Pessoa
Joaquín Pasos
Jacques Roumain
Guillaume Apollinaire
Toriko Takarabe
Ingeborg Bachmann
Content
I. PARIS
Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (Kotaro Takamura)
Eiffel Tower (Vicente Huidobro)
A Man from Ecuador Beneath the Eiffel Tower (Jorge Carrera Andrade)
II. NEW YORK
The Dawn (Federico García Lorca)
New York (trumpet solo for jazz orchestra) (Léopold Sédar Senghor)
III. LOS ANGELES
L.A. Nocturne: The Angels (Xavier Villaurrutia)
Hollywood Elegies (Bertolt Brecht)
IV. TRAINS & CARS
Things I Didn't Know I Loved (Nâzim Hikmet)
At the Wheel of the Chevrolet on the Road to Sintra (Fernando Pessoa)
V. IMAGINARY COUNTRIES
Norway (Joaquín Pasos)
Guinea (Jacques Roumain)
Ocean-Letter (Guillaume Apollinaire)
The Water and Mongolia (Toriko Takarabe)
VI. CODA
Stay (Ingeborg Bachmann)
Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (Kotaro Takamura)
Eiffel Tower (Vicente Huidobro)
A Man from Ecuador Beneath the Eiffel Tower (Jorge Carrera Andrade)
II. NEW YORK
The Dawn (Federico García Lorca)
New York (trumpet solo for jazz orchestra) (Léopold Sédar Senghor)
III. LOS ANGELES
L.A. Nocturne: The Angels (Xavier Villaurrutia)
Hollywood Elegies (Bertolt Brecht)
IV. TRAINS & CARS
Things I Didn't Know I Loved (Nâzim Hikmet)
At the Wheel of the Chevrolet on the Road to Sintra (Fernando Pessoa)
V. IMAGINARY COUNTRIES
Norway (Joaquín Pasos)
Guinea (Jacques Roumain)
Ocean-Letter (Guillaume Apollinaire)
The Water and Mongolia (Toriko Takarabe)
VI. CODA
Stay (Ingeborg Bachmann)