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Otrarse: Ladino Poems

Otrarse: Ladino Poems

Gelman, Juan
Stavans, Ilan

Paperback

Series: Jewish Latin America

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0826366791
ISBN13: 9780826366795
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Nov 15 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One of Latin American's most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930-2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of his poetry dealt with Jewish themes. He established a dialogue across time with Santa Teresa de Ávila and San Juan de la Cruz, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystical poets whose ancestry was also Jewish. He rewrote portions of the Bible, medieval Hebrew poetry, and even taught himself Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews, and wrote a book of poems in it.

In this bilingual volume, celebrated scholar Ilan Stavans retraces Gelman's regard for these poetic ancestors, translating into English his Jewish oeuvre by carefully preserving the Hebrew, Spanish, and Ladino echoes of the originals. The result is historically accurate and artistically exhilarating, repositioning Gelman as a major Jewish writer of the last century.

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