Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros by Dr. Alejandro Caceres (PDF)

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This graceful translation and bilingual edition, now in paperback, is the first to bring English readers a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven. Translated by native Uruguayan Alejandro Cáceres and including work from each of Agustini’s four published books, Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros is a response to a resurgent interest not just in the poems but in the passionate and daring woman behind them and the social and political world she inhabited. Delmira Agustini was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on October 24, 1886 to wealthy parents of German and Italian descent. She published her first volume of poetry when she was twenty-one and followed with two more in the next six years: the fourth volume was a posthumous publication. Her life was cut short in 1914, when Enrique Job Reyes, her ex-husband, shot her to death and then turned the gun on himself. Carefully selected for this bilingual, en face edition, the poems collected here track and highlight Agustini’s development and strengths as an artist—including her methods of experimentation, first relying on modernista forms and later abandoning them—and her focus on the figure of the male, which she portrays as the crux of devotion and attention but deems ultimately unreachable. Cáceres’s introduction presents biographical information and situates Agustini’s work and life in a larger political, historical, and literary context, particularly the modernismo movement, whose followers broke linguistic and political ties with the pathos and excesses of romanticism.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros provides a masterful introduction to the life and works of Delmira Agustini. Even more importantly, through its thoughtfully executed translations, the English-speaking public is afforded, for the first time, access to the complex and sophisticated poetry that turned Agustini into a celebrity during her lifetime and a role model for generations to come.”—Cathy L. Jrade, author of Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature About the Author Alejandro Cáceres, an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and has lived in the United States since 1977. He is the editor of the definitive critical edition of the complete poems of Delmira Agustini, published in Montevideo, Uruguay by Ediciones de la Plaza in 1999—now in its 3rd edition.

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⭐This poetry collection by the relatively unknown, yet a prophetic figure in Latin American poetry is a goldmine of good poetry. As Wills Barnstone says in his introduction -“When Agustini speaks of love, she leaves no question about the sexual fire she dares make explicit—in her time almost unthinkable: “your golden key sang in my lock” (“The Intruder”). On the pillow, she writes, “Your impudence fascinated me and I adored your madness” (“The Intruder”). There is no passive woman here, waiting for her lover’s announcements. She is her own person and writes what she feels, what she knows, what she wants to tell the world. And how beautifully she does so. In poem after poem, we find mysterious lines of interior illumination as in “Your figure was a stain of light and whiteness” (“The Intruder”).”Here is a lovely poem from this collection to whet your appetite.From Far AwayBy Delmira AugustiniTranslated by Dr. Alejandro Caceres and Willis BarnstoneIn silence I feel time passing, Like a slow parade, cold and rhythmical . . . Ah! When you are far away my whole life cries And to the murmur of your steps even in dreams I smile.I know you will return, that another dawn will shine In my grave horizon like a somber frown; There in my forest will live again your great sonorous smile That gaily crossed it like the glass of a river.One day, meeting sadly on the path, In your pale hands I placed my destiny! And no greater thing will anyone ever offer you!My soul is before your soul like the sea before the sky: Between them, like the shadow of a flight, Storm and time, and life, and death will pass!

⭐The best “selected” so far, and I have all of them.

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