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Description for Cipango
Hardback. Translator(s): Shapiro, Daniel. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 608.
Chilean poet Tomás Harris's Cipango—written in the 1980s, first published in 1992, and considered by many to be the author's best work to date—employs the metaphor of a journey. The poems collectively allude to the voyage of Columbus, who believed that he'd reached the Far East ('Cipango,' or Japan), not the Americas. Building on that mistaken historical premise, Cipango comments on the oppressive legacy of colonialism in Latin America—manifested in twentieth-century Chile through the 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet and the brutal dictatorship there—and on the violence and degradation of contemporary urban society. The author's vision is of a ... Read more
Chilean poet Tomás Harris's Cipango—written in the 1980s, first published in 1992, and considered by many to be the author's best work to date—employs the metaphor of a journey. The poems collectively allude to the voyage of Columbus, who believed that he'd reached the Far East ('Cipango,' or Japan), not the Americas. Building on that mistaken historical premise, Cipango comments on the oppressive legacy of colonialism in Latin America—manifested in twentieth-century Chile through the 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet and the brutal dictatorship there—and on the violence and degradation of contemporary urban society. The author's vision is of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
Number of Pages
321
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483291
SKU
V9781611483291
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About Tomas Harris
Tomás Harris is the author of Cipango and other books of poems. Daniel Shapiro is director of literature and editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas at the Americas Society in New York.
Reviews for Cipango
The enormous challenge of translating this poetry and creating coherent poems in English has been met admirably by Daniel Shapiro….Tomás Harris is an exceptional poet, hardly known in the United States, who is engaged in writing in and about our history-battered time. Daniel Shapiro, with his rich, accomplished translations, has performed an immense service by bringing Harris' writing to the ... Read more