Eyes To See Otherwise

Homero Aridjis

Eyes To See Otherwise

Poetry by Homero Aridjis

Edited by George McWhirter and Betty Ferber

Eyes to See Otherwise is the first widely representative selection by Mexico’s greatest living poet to be published in a bilingual edition. The range and quality of the translations, by some of America’s finest poets, mark the centrality of his work on the map of modern poetry. Homero Aridjis’s sources range from Nahuatl chants and Huichol initiation songs to San Juan de la Cruz and the 16th-century Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote. He is, in the words of translator George McWhirter, “a troubadour of love for lost environments, a voice in the wilderness of Mexico City and Mexico.” Included in this selection are poems by Aridjis evoking his own life, present and past, his memories always sticking close to his birthplace Contepec, where, on Altamirano Hill, the Monarch butterflies arrive each year. This long awaited Selected Poems enables the reader to witness, from the 1960 collection The Eyes of a Double Vision to new unpublished poems, the poetic and personal evolution of this “visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline concentrations and infinite spaces” (Kenneth Rexroth).

Paperback(published Apr, 01 2002)

ISBN
9780811215091
Price US
19.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
312
Portrait of Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis

Contemporary Mexican-Greek poet, novelist, columnist, diplomat and environmental activist.