Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino download book EPUB, PDF
9781556594472 English 155659447X "Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoac�n, Mexico. He never met his parents. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San �ngel, fascinated then as now by the non-human."-Forrest Gander, from the introduction fungus skull eye wing is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition. From "Its Verb's Forked Tongue": Its verb's forked tongueTransforms transnominatestranslucent linethe viper the verbtranslades its shadowTattoo freakfrom rows of spotsa star transudesa language of scales... Alfonso D'Aquino is an editor, poetry instructor, snake handler, and author of six books. He was born in Mexico City in 1959 and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His poetry is included in the landmark anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award., Impeccably translated from Spanish by the award-winning poet Forrest Gander, fungus skull eye wing is a book of liquid perspective and butoh-like gestures. Shifting along the margins of rational perception, D'Aquino's poetry "draws us into dialogue with the world." His language morphs into his observations: speech comes alive while the living world becomes speech in what Richard Howard calls "the most vivid and satisfying new poetry from Mexico that I have ever encountered." D'Aquino has since childhood, writes Gander in his introduction, been "fascinated by the nonhuman." Presented bilingually, fungus skull eye wing is "not 'nature poetry' as topic and commentary, but poetry as exploration (both formal and thematic) of the relationships between nature and culture, body and feeling, language and perception." below my plant skin, below my animal face, below my stone bones, below my flesh which is earth, within this covering net of salt flush, with the revivifying mulch from which I'm born, decoupled from all my compounds, humid fibrous greening, an albid translucent bulb, its flesh transparent and lucid and in the netherside of leaves I see radiant transparence of their shadows made of deckled blues / the transparency of things embossed with crisscrossing threads that pass through me and through you and others in turn Book jacket., Poetry. Translation. FUNGUS SKULL EYE WING is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh- like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award- winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition. "Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacan, Mexico. He never met his parents. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Angel, fascinated then as now by the non- human." Forrest Gander", This is the first bilingual collection by the Mexican master of nature poems, D AquinoA necessary read for fans of Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and Latin American poetry in translation. "Booklist""Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacan, Mexico. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Angel, fascinated then as now by the non-human."Forrest Gander, from the introduction"fungus skull eye wing" is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition.From "Its Verb's Forked Tongue": Its verb's forked tongueTransforms transnominatestranslucent linethe viper the verbtranslades its shadowTattoo freakfrom rows of spotsa star transudesa language of scales . . .Alfonso D'Aquino is an editor, poetry instructor, snake handler, and author of six books. He was born in Mexico City in 1959 and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His poetry is included in the landmark anthology "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry."Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award."
9781556594472 English 155659447X "Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoac�n, Mexico. He never met his parents. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San �ngel, fascinated then as now by the non-human."-Forrest Gander, from the introduction fungus skull eye wing is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition. From "Its Verb's Forked Tongue": Its verb's forked tongueTransforms transnominatestranslucent linethe viper the verbtranslades its shadowTattoo freakfrom rows of spotsa star transudesa language of scales... Alfonso D'Aquino is an editor, poetry instructor, snake handler, and author of six books. He was born in Mexico City in 1959 and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His poetry is included in the landmark anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award., Impeccably translated from Spanish by the award-winning poet Forrest Gander, fungus skull eye wing is a book of liquid perspective and butoh-like gestures. Shifting along the margins of rational perception, D'Aquino's poetry "draws us into dialogue with the world." His language morphs into his observations: speech comes alive while the living world becomes speech in what Richard Howard calls "the most vivid and satisfying new poetry from Mexico that I have ever encountered." D'Aquino has since childhood, writes Gander in his introduction, been "fascinated by the nonhuman." Presented bilingually, fungus skull eye wing is "not 'nature poetry' as topic and commentary, but poetry as exploration (both formal and thematic) of the relationships between nature and culture, body and feeling, language and perception." below my plant skin, below my animal face, below my stone bones, below my flesh which is earth, within this covering net of salt flush, with the revivifying mulch from which I'm born, decoupled from all my compounds, humid fibrous greening, an albid translucent bulb, its flesh transparent and lucid and in the netherside of leaves I see radiant transparence of their shadows made of deckled blues / the transparency of things embossed with crisscrossing threads that pass through me and through you and others in turn Book jacket., Poetry. Translation. FUNGUS SKULL EYE WING is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh- like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award- winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition. "Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacan, Mexico. He never met his parents. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Angel, fascinated then as now by the non- human." Forrest Gander", This is the first bilingual collection by the Mexican master of nature poems, D AquinoA necessary read for fans of Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and Latin American poetry in translation. "Booklist""Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacan, Mexico. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Angel, fascinated then as now by the non-human."Forrest Gander, from the introduction"fungus skull eye wing" is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the "rational," perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition.From "Its Verb's Forked Tongue": Its verb's forked tongueTransforms transnominatestranslucent linethe viper the verbtranslades its shadowTattoo freakfrom rows of spotsa star transudesa language of scales . . .Alfonso D'Aquino is an editor, poetry instructor, snake handler, and author of six books. He was born in Mexico City in 1959 and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His poetry is included in the landmark anthology "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry."Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award."