Landscape with Yellow Birds
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| ISBN-13: | 9781935744801 |
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| Publisher: | Steerforth Press |
| Publication date: | 06/04/2013 |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
Thomas Christensen is the author of 1616: The World in Motion and New World/New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas. He has translated, often in collaboration with his wife, Carol Christensen, works by Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Alejo Carpentier, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, among others. He lives in Richmond, California.
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Table of Contents
Translators Preface xi
from A Modo de Esperanza (In a Hopeful Mode, 1953-1954)
"To ashes" 5
The mirror 7
First night 9
Consent 11
The good-bye 13
from Poemas a Lázaro (Poems for Lazarus, 1955-1960)
Night falls 17
Gateway to sense 19
But no further 21
The vase 23
Rotation of creation 25
Morning 27
from La Memoria y los Signos (Memory and Signs, 1960-1965)
The signal 33
Beyond the walls 35
The bridge 39
Night before 41
The circle 45
The dying man 47
Only love 51
This image of you 53
Be my limit 55
Sin 59
No man's land 61
Poet in a time of misery 65
The sacrifice 67
The sign 71
A song 73
from Siete Representaciones (Seven Representations, 1966)
In the void of love 79
Lazy, warm 83
from Breve Son (Brief Sound, 1953-1968)
Love is in what we put forward 89
The adolescent 91
Under the water 93
In many moments 95
But you never 97
Today I walked 99
Second homage to Isidore Ducasse 101
from Presentacíon y Memorial para un Monumento (Presentation and Memorial for a Monument, 1969)
I did not want to be an official 105
from El Inocente (The Innocent, 1957-1970)
Capsule bio 111
A body has no name 113
The poem 115
The labyrinth 119
from Treinta y Siete Fragmentos (Thirty-Seven Fragments, 1971)
Now, as I compose with hesitation 123
I will give you a flower 125
The man who came from far away 127
from Interior con Figures (Interior with Figures, 1973-1976)
Ceramic with figures on white ground 131
Picasso-Guernica-Picasso: 1973 133
Desire was a still point 135
Aeneas, son of Anchises, consults the shades 137
Material 139
Prebeginning 141
from Material Memoria (Material Memory, 1977-1978)
The angel 145
Figure 147
The way the body of wounded love was opened 149
After awakening 151
While you can tell 153
from Tres lecciones de tinieblas (Three Lessons of Darkness, 1980)
First Lesson 157
from Mandorla (Mandorla, 1982)
Latitude 161
Material memory, III 163
The tremor 165
Threshold 167
Poem 171
Death and resurrection 173
from El Fulgor (The Glow, 1984)
from your hands words are formed 177
from Al Dios Del Lugar (To The God Of Place, 1989)
He formed 181
Prostrate while 183
The dark violence 185
from No Amanece el Cantor (The Singer Does Not Awaken, 1992); Part I The singer does not awaken
The body of love becomes transparent 189
Amid the slow corruption of days 191
Don't let yourself die like the prophets of old 193
The patience of the south 195
The sea contained laminated fragments of night 197
And you, soul that offers no relief 199
Immersion of the voice 201
I see, I see 203
Autumn fell like thick yellow drool 205
The center is deserted 207
Characters become erased 209
The sad premeditation of planning 221
The woman's thighs were long and moist 213
What killed the dinosaurs? 215
Images of images of images 217
Time is clotted with damp lizards and hedgehogs 219
Worn-out gold wrapped in blood 221
Fingers on the drum, the stretched skin 223
Airy filtration of bodies 225
I wanted to write Unter den Linden 227
We have no time to remember 229
In the sky over Paris 231
from No Amanece el Cantor (The Singer Does Not Awaken, 1992); Part II Landscape with yellow birds
from your inundated heart 235
The appointed time 237
In the sands I draw a double parallel line 239
Slowly 241
My eyes are suddenly flooded with light 243
Body of a stranger 245
Neither word nor silence 247
It seemed to me now that love 249
Submerged landscape 251
Last afternoon 253
Convergence 255
I thought I knew one of your names 257
A man bears the ashes 259
What, tell me, are those clouds 261
At dusk the unseen hand 263
Now you ache with weariness and pain 265
In the mirror your image has faded 267
Now I know we shared 269
There is a quiet metallic peace 271
Understand that only at the end 273
We exercise a poor meager art 275
What was loneliness 277
Your sign was the moon 279
I am weak 281
I reach out to the shadows 283
I would have been in places 285
I could not figure out 287
Slowly moon followed moon 289
The sinister whiteness of snow 291
Sometimes I feel so close to death 293
How little it serves us to live 295
Now that I am sitting alone 297
from Fragmentos de un Libro Futuro (Fragments From A Future Book, 1991-2000)
The world is sometimes filled with sadness 301
If there is a moment in the world 303
Time has passed 305
We were in a desert 307
If after death we rise 309
Perhaps in the parched, dark, quick 311
A faint light fallen 313
Saint George is just a kid 315
The level of the shadow 319
Memory opens for us light 321
What remains is fabulation 323
The horses, the gold, the round 325
Somebody tells me 327
When I see you like this, my body, so fallen 325
And all the poems I have written 331
The summit of song 333