Theory of the voice and dream / Liliana Ponce ; translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea.
| Author/creator | Ponce, Liliana author |
| Other author | Shea, Michael Martin translator |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : World Poetry, 2025. |
| Description | 198 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Teoría de la voz y el sueño. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/3adb03fd-0f63-ade4-187e-d0780e6aa74b |
| Contents | Translator's introduction -- The somber season -- Beyond the somber season -- Only the eye sees blue -- Knowledge scatters the body -- Diary -- Other poems. Love in oceans of sand -- Psyche and Eros -- Allegory of the morning -- House as kingdom -- Fudekara. |
| Abstract | "Obsessing on the relationship between creation and absence, Argentine poet Liliana Ponce presents an unsettling meditation on body, language, and self. For the first time in English, this edition brings together Ponce's serial poems from the closing years of the twentieth century, the widely anthologized Theory of the Voice and Dream and Fudekara, a shorter sequence written in response to a Japanese calligraphy course. In these major works, Ponce questions the nature of writing itself, of how to write when "to write today is an emptiness," or when "mouth and voice cannot find each other." Breaking with Argentine poetic conventions, Ponce charts a new model for poesis -- oneiric, embodied, and urgent. As she says, "I write so I don't have to speak, so I don't have to watch." Latin American Literature. Argentine Literature. Poetry. Women Writers. Translation"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "The works included in this book were originally published by tsé-tsé in Buenos Aires, Argentina as Teoría de la voz y el sueño (2001) and Fudekara (2008)"--Title page verso. |
| Language | Text in parallel original Spanish with English translation. |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| LCCN | 2025930688 |
| ISBN | 9781954218338 paperback |
| ISBN | 1954218338 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | New Books | PQ7798.26 .O476 T4613 2025 | ✔ Available | Want This? |