Impossible Loves
$34.08
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2020
Summary
Shortlisted for The Premio Valle Inclan Award for Spanish Translation 2020.
In his poems Darío Jaramillo relentlessly interrogates time, ecstatically celebrates life lived, and mourns its transience. This is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia’s greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades’ work.
Time has been Jaramillo’s key theme, all the more urgently so as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves provide another theme, as do the effects of violence…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784108618 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784108618 |
| Author: | Dario Jaramillo, Richard Gwyn |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 10mm |
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‘A feat of translation, but also of empathy.’ - Patrick McGuinness, on ‘The Other Tiger’
About The Author
Dario Jaramillo
Dario Jaramillo is one of Colombia’s foremost poets and novelists, widely acclaimed for re-energising the love poem, and winner of his country’s National Poetry Prize (2017). He is the recipient of the International Federico Garcia Lorca Prize (2018) for a lifetime contribution to Spanish literature.
Richard Gwyn is the author of The Vagabond’s Breakfast (Wales Book of the Year, 2012) and The Blue Tent (2019). As a translator from Spanish, his anthology The Other Tiger (2016) has introduced a new generation of Latin American poets to readers of English.
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