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Poets for the Millennium
JOSE LEZAMA LIMA
BOOKS IN SPANISH
540 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2001
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December 28, 2007
Lezama Lima writes what may be the most "out" poetry I've ever read: the turns and the changes come so fast, and with such disregard for the images preceding and following. Beautiful and strange, mind-opening to the possibilities of baffling sequence. A Costa Rican friend asked me on Christmas eve what I was reading and I told him Lezama Lima. "That doesn't even make any sense in Spanish," he replied. Gotcha.
May 30, 2023
Many of the translations are herculean, but doing a monolingual edition of a poet like Lezama is always going to be problematic.
April 9, 2016
I read this in spanish and all it did was make me sleepy.
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