LIBROS DEL AUTOR: elsa cross

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  • Bomarzo
    Elsa Cross / Lawrence Schimel
    Bomarzo iis a garden of monsters, an Arcadian bower, a fugue state, an invocation, a purgatorial dream. Titled after the site of the sixteenth-century Parco dei Mostri, constructed by the Duke Pier Francesco Orsini in central Italy, Mexican poet Elsa Cross’ collection gathers all these connotations under its eerie shadow. A long poem consisting of nineteen numbered sections, ea...
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    16,59 €

  • Bomarzo
    Elsa Cross / Lawrence Schimel
    The open mouth of the Orcus, in the front-cover photograph, represents an entrance to the underworld, according to all the symbolism embedded in the Gardens of Bomarzo, built in the 16th Century in central Italy. And this book actually seems to play with different strata of reality and perception, with different states of the mind – as well as the soul. It proceeds from the con...
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    15,93 €

  • Amorgos Notebook
    Elsa Cross / Luis Ingelmo / Tony Frazer
    Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgós) is a book-length sequence published in Mexico City in 2007, which won for the author Mexico’s most prestigious national poetry award, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. Amorgos is the easternmost island in the Cyclades, where the author has spent much time, but this is no sequence of travel poems: rather the author fashions a rhapsodic celebra...
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    19,46 €

  • Beyond the Sea
    Elsa Cross / Anamaria Crowe Serrano
    Beyond the Sea brings together two book-length sequences first published in Mexico in the early years of the century, both taking their origins from Greece, a matter of central importance for the poet for many years. Fittingly, for subject-matter thoroughly drenched in the Greek past, the poems are odes and dithyrambs; the gods are there, imagery that has echoed across the cent...
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    20,63 €

  • Selected Poems
    Elsa Cross / Michael Smith / Ruth Fainlight
    Elsa Cross (b. 1946) is one of Mexico’s most significant contemporary poets, and this is the first full-length collection of her work in English-a long overdue but welcome opportunity for Anglo-American readers to get a sense of the full breadth of her work. The work selected for this volume concentrates on her longer poems, which are at the core of Elsa Cross’ work-ranging fro...
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    17,98 €