Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat: Poems (Ambroggio Prize) (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Pintado Burgos, Margarita

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9780816553297: Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat: Poems (Ambroggio Prize) (English and Spanish Edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816553297 ISBN 13: 9780816553297
Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of the 2023 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets

Aflame with desire, the eye conjures, dreams, invents itself, sees what it wants. The eye sees what it is able to see.

Ojo en celo / Eye in Heat brings into sharp relief the limits of our gaze. It shows us what it is to escape the mirror and move beyond mirages. Margarita Pintado Burgos invites us to ponder the impasse while showing us ways to see better, to break the habit of lying, and to confront images along with language.

With devastating clarity, Pintado Burgos’s poems, presented in both Spanish and English, give voice to the world within and beyond sight: the plants, the trees, the birds, the ocean waves, the fruit forgotten in the kitchen, the house’s furniture. Light takes on new dimensions to expose, manipulate, destroy, and nourish. Alejandra Quintana Arocho’s sensitive English translation renders the stark force of these poems without smoothing over the language of the original.

This collection is for anyone who has felt the weight of beauty that remains hidden. It is for those who have left behind a mother, a father, a country. It is for those who know that there is no way out of the poem, for those who have had to live off a house of words and need that house to be as real as possible. Pintado Burgos writes as a woman, exile, daughter, sister, lover, and artist empowered by the restorative potential of the creative phenomenon. 
 

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About the Author

Margarita Pintado Burgos is the author of three books of poetry, the latest of which is Simultánea, la marea. She is a full professor of language and literature at Point Loma Nazarene University.

Alejandra Quintana Arocho is a writer and literary translator whose publications include a centennial bilingual edition of Gabriela Mistral’s first book of poems, Desolación.

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Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816553297
ISBN 13 
9780816553297
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
144
Rating
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