The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Baranda, María; Hoover, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative poems inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs-and, the story goes, a popular love song overheard from his cramped cell-that take God as the beloved. Erotically charged, initially scandalous, his mystical poetry engages with the journey of the soul through the darkest trenches of suffering and despair toward an enlightened spiritual connection with God. For hundreds of years, these poems have resonated deeply with those who search for meaning in the dark, and have influenced generations of poets, artists, and philosophers.

This bilingual edition of the Complete Poems-including "Dark Night" and both the Sanlúcar and Jaén manuscripts of "Spiritual Canticle"-presents an intimate and exceptionally collaborative new translation from María Baranda and Paul Hoover. Baranda, one of the most distinguished Mexican poets of her generation, lends her deft hand with expansive, meditative poetry. Hoover-the accomplished American poet, editor, and translator-offers his dexterity with form and the possibilities of language. The product is uniquely faithful to image and idea, and loyal to the ecstatic lyricism of this canonical text.

A volume that hums with the soul's longing to find solace, The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz is a collection to be treasured.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571319609
• Artikelnr.: 63103072

Autorenporträt

María Baranda is a winner of major literary awards in Mexico, the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize and the Efrain Huerta National Poetry Prize, as well as Spain's Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry. Her collections of poems include Narrar, Atlántica y el rústico, Avido mundo, Ficticia and El mar insuficiente: poemas 1989-2009 (translated into English by Joshua Edwards), and Yegua nocturna corriendo en un prado de luz absoluta (translated into English by Paul Hoover). Paul Hoover is the author of collections of poems including The Book of Unnamed Things, Desolation: Souvenir, Sonnet 56, Edge and Fold, and Poems in Spanish, which was nominated for a Bay Area Book Award. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and coeditor of the literary magazine New American Writing. He teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.

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Contents
San Juan de la Cruz
The Life
The Poetry
Translator's Note
Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz
Noche oscura * Dark Night
Cantico spiritual (Redacción del manuscrito de Sanlúcar) * Spiritual
Canticle (Redaction of the manuscript of Sanlúcar)
Cantico spiritual (Redacción del manuscrito de Jaén) * Spiritual Canticle
(Redaction of the manuscript of Jaén)
Llama de amor viva * Flame of Living Love
Coplas del mismo hechas sobre un éxtasis de alta contemplación * Songs
Written in an Ecstasy of High Contemplation
Coplas del alma que pena por ver a Dios * Songs of the Soul That Aches to
See God
Otras del mismo a lo divino * Other Verses to the Divine
Otras canciones a lo divino de Cristo y el alma * Other Songs to the
Divinity of Christ and the Soul
Cantar del alma que se huelga de conocer a Dios por fe * Song of the Soul
That Rejoices in the Knowledge of God through Faith
Romances
Sobre el Evangelio "in principio erat Verbum" acerca de la Santísima
Trinidad * Concerning the Gospel "In the Beginning Was the Verb" with
Regard to the Holy Trinity
De la communicación de las tres personas * Of the Communication of the
Three Persons
De la creación * Of the Creation
Prosigue (Hágase, pues, dijo el Padre) * It Continues (Let it be, then,
said the Father) Prosigue (Con esta biena esperanza) * It Continues (With
this good hope)
Prosigue (En aquestos y otros ruegos) * It Continues (In these and other
entreaties)
Prosigue la Encarnación * The Incarnation Continues
Prosigue (Entonces llamó a un arcángel) * It Continues (Then he called an
archangel)
Del Nacimiento * Of the Birth
Otro del mismo que va por "super flumina Babilonis" * By the Waters of
Babylon
Glosas a lo divino (Mi alma está desasida) * Glosses on the Divine (My Soul
is loosened)
Glosa a lo divino del mismo autor (Por toda la hermosura) * Gloss on the
Divine (For all that's beautiful)
Del Verbo Divino * Of the Divine Verb
Suma de la perfección * The Sum of Perfection
Monte de perfección * The Mount of Perfection