Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilari?o released Poemas de Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of ’45–which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale–Vilari?o is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets. Vilari?o and Onetti’s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas de Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions.
Author: Idea Vilari?o
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/06/2020
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822966258
Language: English
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