Newly expanded edition of a classic the first and only collection of Cortaacutezars poetry to appear in English."Cortzars verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortzar is a peoples poet, accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the Latin American boom is indisputable."Publishers Weekly, starred review"[This new] editionsmall and irresistible, the kind you want to pocket and read out on the grass somewhereis bilingual, with Spanish on the left page and English on the right, and [Stephen] Kessler does us the favor of retaining some of Cortzars weird, wandering little essays, including "For Listening Through Headphones," his oblique study of poetic intimacy."The New YorkerWorld renowned as one of the masters of modern fiction, Julio Cortzar was also a prolific poet. While living in Paris during the last months of his life, Cortzar assembled his lifes work in verse for publication, and Save Twilight selects the best of that volume, making his poems available in English for the very first time.This expanded edition, with nearly one hundred new pages of poems, prose and illustrations, is a book to be savored by both the familiar reader and the newcomer to Cortzar work. Ranging from the intimate to the political, tenderness to anger, heartbreak to awe, in styles both traditionally formal and free, Cortzar the poet and subverter of genres is...

Binding: Paperback;280 pages; Publisher: City Lights Publishers; Classification: DCF; Weight: 368 g; Dimensions: 126 x 162 x 22

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