| Ismaelillo Contributor(s): Martí, José (Author), Fisher, Tyler (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0916727424 ISBN-13: 9780916727420 Publisher: Wings Press (TX) OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: A seminal work in Latin America's "modernismo" movement, this first anthology of verse by Jose Marti is available in a complete English translation for the first time. This accessible, annotated edition includes a critical introduction, presented in both English and Spanish, which explores the volume's historical and literary contexts and addresses issues of the translation. Composed after domestic separation from his wife and infant son, and after his second exile from Cuba due to his involvement in the Guerra Chiquita, the 15 poems that comprise the collection demonstrate a poet-hero whose revolutionary spirit would ultimately lead to his participation--and subsequent death--in the conflict that freed Cuba from the Spanish yoke. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 861.5 |
| LCCN: 2007001733 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.84" W x 8.81" (0.61 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A seminal work in Latin America's modernismo movement, this first anthology of verse by Jos Mart is available in a complete English translation for the first time. This accessible, annotated edition includes a critical introduction, presented in both English and Spanish, which explores the volume's historical and literary contexts and addresses issues of the translation. Composed after domestic separation from his wife and infant son, and after his second exile from Cuba due to his involvement in the Guerra Chiquita, the 15 poems that comprise the collection demonstrate a poet-hero whose revolutionary spirit would ultimately lead to his participation--and subsequent death--in the conflict that freed Cuba from the Spanish yoke. |