{"product_id":"garden-of-silica-9781844714650","title":"Garden of Silica","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGarden of Silica\u003c\/em\u003e is the first poetry anthology of the Uruguayan Ida Vitale to appear in English, spanning eight books published from 1960 to the present. Vitale is one of the fundamental voices of Latin American literature, and her work also encompasses essays, short stories, journalism, and translation. She belongs to Uruguay's Critical Generation of the 1940s, whose mission was the construction of a participative intellectual subject. Vitale's poetry illustrates the incompatibility of the construction of that intellectual subject and realism. It is not the case of an idealist aesthetic that denies the existence of objective reality or offers only a testimony of individuality. Rather, these texts seek a balance between subjectivity and objectivity, and accordingly the private and the public. In addition, with a revealing gesture of feminist undertones, intellectual capacity is privileged above that of sentimentality. As a result, Vitale's message is implicit, requiring an active reader, one involved in the very process of creation. Placing the intellectual subject at the forefront, and thus relegating the national and the feminine to a second plane, Ida Vitale's poetry offers one of the most profound and provocative representations of women's subjectivity in the Spanish language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIda Vitale or the Brilliances of the Intellectual Subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM EACH IN HIS NIGHT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaily Obligations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM LISTENER ERRANT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueen Sphinx\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePallid Signs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Chooses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecreational\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBackroom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM GARDEN OF SILICA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTracing through Transparency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural Fortunes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistance’s Square\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgainst Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePast’s Liquid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dervish’s Answer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHomage to Magritte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNocturnal Wheel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hunt, Infinite?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePsalm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStar’s Passage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfirmation of Shadow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the Speed of Fear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Blind Machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlameda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGarden of Silica\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZoon Politikon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM DREAMS OF CONSTANCY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJustice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComposition with Symbols\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResidue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChaos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEfrain’s Burial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDestiny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM SEARCH FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoth, Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHummingbird\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRivers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHouses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Day, A Labyrinth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDestinies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMidday Demon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEquation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScarcely Concert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmall Kingdom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dark Table\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExiles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStill Canto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCocoon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Burn, To Quiet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Injured Man’s Greeting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBotanica\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaurels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSan Miniato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM REDUCTION OF THE INfiNITE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParenthesis, Fragile Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCulture of Palimpsest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSums\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlow Obstacles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalamanders’ Mail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnnunciation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Glory of Philitis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Arms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrder of Angels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLunatic Solo, Legitimate Isolation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM BYOBU’S ABCS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVery Platonic Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnots\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnguish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFROM TREMA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTask\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalculated Error\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Night of Some Year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Back of the Sky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Visible God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf Blind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Saga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFortune\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBogota, 2001\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 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