Las Horas Imposibles / the Impossible Hours
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-5488-1 (ISBN)
Presented in Spanish with English translations, this poetry collection comprises lyric and concrete poems- or frontextos- that explore intimacy and different shades of violence as a means to reconcile the speaker's sense of belonging in the world. From the opening poem to the last in the first section, Quintanilla captures the perilous journeys that migrants undertake crossing borders as well as the paths that lovers forge to meet their endless longing. These themes are skillfully woven by Quintanilla, guiding us back and forth across the Rio Grande to encounter the apparitions of the disappeared and to witness the willingness of many to risk life and limb for a better life. The second half of the collection is one long poem, a letter addressed to a lost lover who will never get to read the speaker's secret thoughts. Haunted by loss - of parents, of children, of the self - the speaker reaches an inevitable epiphany: " [A]nd sometimes it's hard to know / on which side of the river I stand." Stylistically, these poems destabilize our notions and expectations of genre and lyricism.
Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours is more than just an exercise in poetic virtuosity it is an excavation into the complexities of what it means to be a human being in our contemporary world.
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing and The Book of Wounded Sparrows. He is the founder and director of the Literature and Arts Festival and VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas. His frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches literature and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. Natalia Treviñ o is a translator of Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours. A poet and writer of fiction and nonfiction, Treviñ o is an assistant professor of English at Northwest Vista College and holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska. Born in Mexico City, Treviñ o has lived in San Antonio, Texas, for most of her life.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ambroggio Prize |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 concrete poems |
| Verlagsort | Tucson |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8165-5488-9 / 0816554889 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8165-5488-1 / 9780816554881 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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