Migrations

Poem, 1976-2020

Migrations
Mark Schafer, Gloria Gervitz
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Paperback
h178 x 127mm - 304pg
21 Sep 2021 US
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9781681375700
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An epic, single-poem tribute to the spirit of women, this is the first complete and final translation of the great Mexican poet' s magnum opus. Forty-three years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gervitz' s book is an epic journey in free verse through the individual and collective memories of Jewish women emigrants from Eastern Europe, a conversation that ranges across two thousand years of poetry, a bridge that spans the oracles of ancient Greece and the markets of modern Mexico, a prayer that blends the Jewish and Catholic liturgies, a Mexican woman' s reclamation through poetry of her own voice and erotic power. Gervitz' s work has been compared to the works of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, and Guillen. Pulitzer-prize winning poet and translator Forrest Gander has called Migrations "one of the great poems of the 21st century. "Mark Schafer' s pioneering translation of Gervitz' s lifework is a poetic feat in its own right.
Gloria Gervitz was born in 1943 in Mexico City. In addition to writing Migrations, Gervitz has also translated the work of Clarice Lispector, Samuel Beckett, Anna Akhmatova, and other authors into Spanish. Her own work has appeared in a number of anthologies in Mexico and the United States and has been translated into several languages. In 2011, she was awarded the Mexico PEN Prize for Literary Excellence. She lives in California. Mark Schafer is a visual artist and literary translator. His art has been exhibited across the United States and he has translated poetry and prose by several Latin American authors, including David Huerta, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Virgilio Pinera, and Antonio Jose Ponte. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
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ISBN-13: 9781681375700
Published: 21 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: NYRB Poets
Publisher: The New York Review of Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 304

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