Self-portrait in the Zone of Silence
This selected volume moves between dream and reality, private memory and social scars, transforming Mexican landscapes and political tension into poetry. Mythic animals, family ghosts, and the atmosphere of the city overlap, and an aging poet's gaze gives the book its quiet force.
Work Information
At the border of dream and reality, it turns memory and politics into poetry and light.
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence is a bilingual collection of Homero Aridjis's recent poems. Mythic animals, family memory, Mexico's oppressed realities, and visions of the city overlap, making his restless curiosity feel vivid even in later life.
Review Summaries
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Its distinctive images that hover between dream and waking win strong support. Political tension and spiritual quiet coexist here, and the translation is also widely appreciated for its texture.
Book Information
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Published
- 2023-02-07
- Pages
- 163 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.21 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780811231732
- ISBN-10
- 0811231739
- Price
- 4079 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence,.
One of Latin America's foremost literary figures, Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico. He has written fifty-one books of poetry and prose and won many important literary prizes. Formerly the Mexican Ambassador to Switzerland, the Netherlands, and UNESCO, he is the president emeritus of PEN International. He is founder and president of the Group of 100, an environmentalist association of writers, artists, and scientists. George McWhirter is an Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver's first Poet Laureate. He has translated works by Mario Arregui, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, and Homero Aridjis (for which he won the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize).