“I still feel great affection for the poetry I’ve written… It’s probably my best writing.” Thus Paul Auster explains his poetry’s central place in his literary output.
This volume presents all his poems in Spanish for the first time, in a bilingual edition with a translation and prologue by the poet and critic Jordi Doce.
In his verses, Auster addresses the same themes and obsessions he explores in his novels: chance and destiny, the distance between the world and language and the dissolution of the self in discourse. This is intense, emotional poetry in which the subtle, musical voice of the author of The New York Trilogy resounds.
“Pale images, images of defeat, visions of whiteness and of wounds
unfold verse by verse… A must-see vision of Paul Auster’s
Of Paul Auster’s work.”
Publishers Weekly
“Ambitious and complex poetry.”
Library Journal
“This is not the poetry of an amateur. Auster’s poems are sequences
of brief lyrical meditations on the nature of reality and our inability to apprehend or describe it.
and our inability to apprehend or describe it.”
The New York Times
“The source of the elegant metaphysics that shapes Auster’s fiction
is to be found in his philosophical poems. Poetry is an essential aspect
in the whole of his marvelous oeuvre.”
Booklist
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