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Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
Pieces of Shadow Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines Author:Jaime Sabines, W. S. Merwin Pieces of Shadow gathers a selection of poetry by twentieth century Mexican writer Jaime Sabines, one of the most important figures in Spanish-American Literature. This book assembles poems from his most recognized books, such as Horal (1950), Tarumba (1956), Yuria (1967) or Other Collected Poemes (1950-1995), titles wich earned Sabines many dev... more »oted readers and enthusiastic critics. The anthology has been translated into English by American poet W.S. Merwin. In Merwin's words, what captures him of sabines poetry was "the jarring authenticity of pasion in [the] tone, a great cracked bell note o f craving and frustration, irony and anger, outrage and black humor all jangled at once, unabashed, ubsweetened, unappeased, and all of it esssential to the rest". These same features still remain in Sabines' poestry for the new readesrs who will inmerse in the literary work of a classic of modern Mexican literature.« less