JOHN OLIVER SIMON
Berkeley, CA
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For over thirty years, John Oliver Simon has been a foremost translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, bringing into English the works of many noted poets and writers such as Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas and Jorge Fernandos Granados.
Los Fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos (Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles)
Translated by John Oliver Simon
Copyright 2000; Jorge Fernandez Granados
Copyright 2008, John Oliver Simon
ISBN 978-0-9674093-6-8
$6.95
Tameme, Inc.
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Los Altos, CA 94022
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Nine poems by the winner of Mexico's Aguascalientes Poetry Prize, one of the most outstanding poets of his generation. English and Spanish side-by-side with an introduction by John Oliver Simon.
Selected Poems
by Elsa Cross
Edited by Tony Frazer
Translated by Anamaria CCrowe Serrano
Ruth Fainlight
Luis Ingelmo & Michael Smith
John Oliver Simon
Copyright 2009
ISBN 978-1-905700-47-9
Shearsman Books Ltd.
58 Velwell Road
Exeter EX4 4LD
England
Elsa Cross (b. 1946) is one of Mexico's ost significant contemporary poets and thi is the first full-length collection of her work in English, a long overdue but welcome opportunity for Anglo-American readers to get a sense of the full breadth of her work. The work selected for this volume concentrates on her longer poems, which are at the core of elsa Cross's work.
Elsa Cross' work is typified by its strong metaphysical orientation, coupled with a dazzing surface and remarkable imagery, and offers the English-speaking reader a new experience. A poetry to be savoured, thanks to the efforts of the five translators at work here, all of whom worked closely with the author to bring these poems successfully across the language barrier.
Book cover art "Simbolos" by Susana Sierra, copyright Susana Sierra.
From the Lightning: Selected Poems by Gonzalo Rojas, translated with a foreword by John Oliver Simon
Introduction by Gonzalo Rojas
(A Bilingual Edition)
Green Integer 155
ISBN 978-1-933382-64-7
$14.95
One of the greatest contemporary Chilean poets, Gonzalo Rojas was born in Lebu, Chile in 1917, the seventh son of a coal miner. From 1936, when Rojas joined the surrealist goup Mandragora, to the present, Rojas has published major collections of poetry: selections from all of his earlier volumes appear in From the Lightning.
Rojas has received most of the major prizes of the Spanish-speaking literary world, including the Premio Reina Sofia, and has been nominated for a Nobel Prize.
This new volume from Green Integer brings to the English-language audience a large selection of poetry by one of the most revered of contemporary writers.
Translations of Light
and
Bacantes y otros poemas
Poems by John Oliver Simon
and Elsa Cross
Spanish and English bilingual edition
Instituo de Mexico
600 Hemisfair Plaza
San Antonio, TX 78205
Copyright 2003
Poems by Elsa Cross
Translated by John Oliver Simon
Copyright 2008
Mexico
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