Review (PDF) Maqroll And Other Poems
Álvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer on the face of the earth, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as he knows that neither can nor will last. Few know, however, that Maqroll made his first appearance, and established his myth, not in prose but in poetry. Starting 1948, Mutis published several volumes of surrealist-tinged poetry, but with an unmistakable voice of his own, gaining the admiration of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, who would later call him “one of the greatest writers of our time.” Here a selection of Mutis’s haunting poems—invocations to a hidden god, private talismans of an outcast spirit—has been rendered into English by two of the finest translators at work today, Alastair Reid and Edith Grossman, and published in a bilingual edition.
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: NYRB Poets (July 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590178742
ISBN-13: 978-1590178744
Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,972,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #540 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > Caribbean & Latin American #5783 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Themes & Styles
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