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An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico''s greatest contemporary writers.

Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist, translator, and storyteller, his poetry explores the connections on frontiers between verbal, visual, and aural experience. He is both an innovator and a classicist, a materialist and a mystic, a visionary and a chronicler of everyday life.

Here his poems converse with their English translations, to create a singular book…not simply a bilingual edition, but one unified voice, a poetry that speaks of a world far beyond languages and borders, (from the introduction by Jose Emilio Pacheco).

The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes—in my way of thinking—a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say

Dawn of the Senses Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco City Lights Pocket Poets Series

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      Publisher: City Lights Books
      Publication Date: 3/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780872863095, 978-0872863095
      ISBN10: 0872863093

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico''s greatest contemporary writers.

      Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist, translator, and storyteller, his poetry explores the connections on frontiers between verbal, visual, and aural experience. He is both an innovator and a classicist, a materialist and a mystic, a visionary and a chronicler of everyday life.

      Here his poems converse with their English translations, to create a singular book…not simply a bilingual edition, but one unified voice, a poetry that speaks of a world far beyond languages and borders, (from the introduction by Jose Emilio Pacheco).

      The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes—in my way of thinking—a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say

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