Hard Equilibrium - Brossura

Morrison, Mateo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1963908376 ISBN 13: 9781963908374

Casa editrice: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2024

Riassunto

Mateo Morrison has published many books of poetry, essays, and prose. His first collection of poems, Aniversario del dolor (Anniversary of Pain), published in 1973, is the starting point of his post-war poetic production, of the social message that identifies with the people who inherited the pain of more than 30 years of dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Critics have classified Morrison as a social and political poet as politics have been an essential part of the poet's life, with his poetry often being testimonial in style. But Mateo Morrison is not only a social poet. This collection, Hard Equilibrium, is an important compilation, as it brings together the most interesting works of Morrison’s oeuvre. Full of social and urban lyricism, Morrison’s verses are the driving force behind modern and liberating poetry, like that of his precursors Jacques Viau Renaud, Rene del Risco Bermúdez, Miguel Alfonsea and Juan José Ayuso, among others. Morrison comments in an interview: “I perceive that poetry permeates everything and can be found in a painting, in a song, in a look, or in nature” and this perception is fully brought to life in Hard Equilibrium.
Francisco Henriquez

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Informazioni sugli autori

Within the history of Dominican literature Mateo Morrison is most closely associated with the generation of post-war poets and his literary work has been translated into various languages. On May 30, 2009, in Ohio, he received the title of Honorary Doctor of Humanities from the International Writers and Artists Association and in February of 2010, he received the National Prize for Literature, the highest distinction awarded to a writer during his lifetime in the Dominican Republic.

Ariel Francisco is the author of the forthcoming All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud's Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez's Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1963908376
• ISBN 13: 9781963908374
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 124
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