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The Complete Perfectionist
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Description for The Complete Perfectionist
Paperback. In a series of aphorisms, this book brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. A treasure for poets and writers, it includes helpful commentary by a noted translator and shows perfection to be a process of "becoming" rather than an end product. It also includes many aphorisms that were published in Spanish. Editor(s): Maurer, Christopher. Translator(s): Maurer, Christopher. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimenez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements - the wellsprings of any kind of creation - are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret. A treasure for poets and writers, "The Complete Perfectionist" includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and ... Read more
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimenez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements - the wellsprings of any kind of creation - are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret. A treasure for poets and writers, "The Complete Perfectionist" includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Swan Isle Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780983322009
SKU
V9780983322009
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About Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University and the author of numerous books on Spanish poetry.
Reviews for The Complete Perfectionist
"This is a gorgeous little book." (Robert Bly) "Maurer provides ample context for Jimenez's maxims, so that we begin to know Jimenez as a person and a poet as well as a philosopher. The aphorisms are marvelous nuggets of wisdom." (Booklist)"