{"product_id":"the-poetess-counts-to-100-and-bows-out-selected-poems-by-ana-enriqueta-ter225n-9780691096728","title":"The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out  Selected","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAna Enriqueta Teran is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. This edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of corresponding force. It is useful for various lovers of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Startlingly vivid and technically masterful poems, whose range and complexity [have] few equals... [A] fiercely intimate journey contained in a slim but thoughtful volume.\"--Christine Thomas, American Book Review \"The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out ... is a demanding selection of poems interweaving fables, myths, dreams, bold similes, and heightened visions of reality in order to interpret and commemorate what often nonetheless seem to be personal experiences. It is a sometimes puzzling yet also singularly sensual and resonant mixture, especially in the many cases where poems exhibit a semantically rich, philosophically ambitious, extremely compact lyricism.\"--John Taylor, Antioch Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii A Note about Sources xviii FROM House Made of Utterance To a White Horse 3 The Name 5 Wordstone 7 Deal Struck with Happiness 9 The Eagle 11 Fit Vision of This Dark Side 13 Dreams 15 Third Try at the Mother House 43 Messages for the Older Brother 45 Music with Psalm Foot 53 Pebbles for Scrying 57 The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out 59 FROM Sonnets out of All My Seasons So much bread, so much oil 63 The strangers rattled at the door 65 She took in night in the pier glass 67 One only leaf, adagioed up 69 They who live there hurl their writings 71 Subtle in your fourteen lines surge 73 In the Suapure River 75 A puddle of shade, on its face 77 Wisdoms of uncertain silk cords 79 Music for lips, whirlwind the heart 81 The replies waver in a vain 83 Black, yellow, white as a subtle 85 FROM Albatross Albatross 89 Splintery Responsibility 91 Ascents and Yet Distances 93 Never Seen Fowl 95 Not Resting Yet 97 Will of the Torn Scream 99 FROM Autobiography in Tercets Rio Momboy 103 The Motatan 107 Other Rivers 111 Invocation to the Mother 115","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403723710807,"sku":"9780691096728","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691096728.jpg?v=1730484360","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poetess-counts-to-100-and-bows-out-selected-poems-by-ana-enriqueta-ter225n-9780691096728","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}