JOSE LEZAMA LIMA

Poets for the Millennium

by Ana Nuño

BOOKS IN SPANISH

Genres: Poetry, Spanish Literature, Latin American

540 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Fred · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Stuart Cooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many of the translations are herculean, but doing a monolingual edition of a poet like Lezama is always going to be problematic.

[Andrea B. · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this in spanish and all it did was make me sleepy.