
Migrations
by Mark Schafer
Title:
Migrations
Author:
Mark Schafer
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
304 pages
Publisher:
New York Review Books
ISBN-13:
9781681375700
EAN:
9781681375700
Publication Date:
02/11/2021
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
496
Dimensions (mm):
208 x 147 x 23
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
An epic, single-poem tribute to the spirit of women, this is the first complete and final translation of the great Mexican poet''s magnum opus.Forty-four years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gloria Gervitz’s book, winner of the 2019 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize, is an epic journey in free verse through the individual and collective memories of Jewish women emigrants from Eastern Europe, a conversation that ranges across two thousand years of poetry, a bridge that spans the oracles of ancient Greece and the markets of modern Mexico, a prayer that blends the Jewish and Catholic liturgies, a Mexican woman’s reclamation through poetry of her own voice and erotic power. In its reach, audacity, and astonishing vitality, Gervitz’s extraordinary life’s work bears comparison to the achievements of HD, Lorine Niedecker, Ezra Pound, and Walt Whitman.










