Anima

by Jose Kozer

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Boyle. "A sixty-year-old man writes a poem and entitles it 'Anima.' Days later he writes another poem with a tone similar to the first, entitles it 'Anima', then realizes he has just begun a series which must all bear the same title. Furthermore, the man decides that in the future and till the day of his death he is going to continue writing poems that, since they have this tone, will bear the title 'Anima.' At the end of a year, having written some 150 poems, he extracts from the accumulated mass 60 poems called 'Anima'"—José Kozer.

268 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2011

Reviews

[Deni]

serie de poemas de cierta naturaleza mística; muchas referencias religiosas y alusiones a monasterios, imágenes de terebintos, bosques, nombres orientales. muchas veces perdido entre esas referencias. un estilo, una sintaxis, igual que en asterisco Polonia, harto personal, en este caso poblada de palabras entre paréntesis funcionando a modo de ecos. plegarias más que poemas, y una especie de testamento al final. insisto en que Kozer es un autor muy interesante, ya encontré otro libro de él y voy por eso.