{"product_id":"reasons-for-writing-poetry-9781844715213","title":"Reasons for Writing Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReasons for Writing Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is the first collection of verse to appear in English from the internationally acclaimed Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos (Lima, 1960). This selection of works, spanning nearly thirty years of poetic output, was carefully chosen for this edition by the author in collaboration with his long-time translator. Chirinos is well known in his native country and the author of sixteen books of poetry in addition to volumes of academic criticism, essays, translations, and children’s books.  A member of Peru’s 80’s Generation, his work has been widely anthologized throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Several of Chirinos’s poems have appeared in literary journals in English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present volume charts the growth of a poet whose fondness for masks is manifest in the frequently dialogic, even polyvocal discourse of his work. Chirinos’s poetry is marked by a wry tone and simple lyric eloquence. Accessible, ironic, and always entertaining, the poems in Reasons for Writing Poetry treat time and again Chirinos’s favourite subjects and themes:  the return to childhood, the vagaries of memory, the alternative reality of dream, a fascination with animals, the utility of seeing and hearing, the writer’s place in poetic tradition, and the never-ending search for originality through innovative expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“No, the Sphinx Doesn’t Want an Answer”:  The Poetics of Eduardo Chirinos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom The Notebooks of Horacio Morell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeatus Ille (Natural History)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Poem for Groucho, the One with the Moustache\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Giraffe and Bus Derby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Chronicles of a Man of Leisure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dead Rocks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree Version of the Stanzas the Young Ali-Nur Recited Before Kutait the Gaoler... \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Fingerprint File\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFood for Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Hot Wind Blows Over Desert Dunes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike the Ice of a Dark Passion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom The Book of Encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildhood Revisited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(Corrales, Tumbes 1965)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Best of the Poets of Rome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Rituals of Knowledge and Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCassandra’s Monologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiresias Speaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSermon on Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Songs of the Ark’s Blacksmith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSongs of the Ark’s Blacksmith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFilms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSea Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRussian Legends\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Domestic Poems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter Lamps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristmas in Bavaria, 1986\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dream Is Over\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLima Revisited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Remember, Body…\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Conch and the Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove and the Sea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fable of Ophelia and Segismund\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePirate of Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom The Bayard Street Tightrope Walker \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bayard Street Tightrope Walker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaritan Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Raccoons in Johnson Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIthaca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRiver Rabbits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaterson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAutumn’s Defeat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDream of Sirens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Poems Die\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCentral Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom The Water’s ABC’s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRats \u0026amp; Mice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScrawling Crows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Carousel in Recreation Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sound of the Susquehanna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust an Average Dog\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReasons for Writing Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Millennium Is Coming to an End\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonologue of Poet and Muse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom A Brief History of Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDance of the Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(Anonymous. Berbérie, c. 1300)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrandenburgische Konzert N° 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(The Four Seasons)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFür Elise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrande Valse Brillante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNight on Bald Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRussian Easter Festival Overture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLe Carnaval des Animaux\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGnossiennes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaughters of the Lonesome Isle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Written in Missoula\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet’s House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuffalo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe St. Ignatius Indian Mission\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(Montana, 1854)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Color of Nightfall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMortally Wounded Okapi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBears\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cat and the Moon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Reach Missoula\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom The Faker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Afternoon in the Prado Museum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cemetery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom No Nightingales on My Finger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeven-Line Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlank Sheets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith My Shadowy Mouth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot Even Hands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDry Leaves, Snow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLa Solitudine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoracio Morell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Nightingales on My Finger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom The Smoke of Distant Fires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Theory of Sight After a Poem by Seferis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Book of My Life or My Conversations with Saint Teresa of Ávila\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePutting My Library in Order Before Bedtime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetters that Arrive without Fanfare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771556462935,"sku":"9781844715213","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844715213.jpg?v=1758728259","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reasons-for-writing-poetry-9781844715213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}