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050 4 $aPQ7390.K68$bS74 2006
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100 1 $aKozer, José.
240 10 $aPoems.$kSelections.$lEnglish & Spanish
245 10 $aStet :$bselected poems /$cJosé Kozer ; translated and edited by Mark Weiss.
260 $aNew York :$bJunction Press,$cc2006.
300 $a219 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aPoems.
500 $aBlurb on p. [4] of cover by Jerome Rothenberg.
500 $aIncludes biographical information (p. 11-17).
500 $aIncludes bibliographical information (p. 19-21).
546 $aSpanish and English on facing pages.
520 $a"Jose Kozer is the preeminent Cuban poet of his generation and one of the most influential poets in Latin America, where his name is a household word among serious readers of poetry. His 37 books and 15 chapbooks have been published in Mexico, Spain, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Chile. There have been dozens of articles and several books about his work. He has been translated into German, Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, Italian, and French. He was the first living Cuban of the diaspora to have a book published on the island. Stet is the first survey of his career in English. Kozer is one of the defining poets of the neobarroco, the dominant tendency in Latin American poetry of the past several decades.
520 $aHis poetry is a collage of the everyday, personal history, the erotic, the esoteric, fantasy, dialects, languages, professional jargons, high seriousness, slapsticks, and the speech of different social classes, presented without hierarchy and with often truncated syntax. The moment is seen as only comprehensible by means of the accretion of linguistic perspectives and the detritus of culture, somewhat the way Cezanne depicts visual reality as the product of the eye's constantly shifting perspectives. The movement from one complex moment to the next often follows a logic lost within the details. The result is a confusing swarm of sensations, an ecstatic perception of the actual. Kozer's poems have as much in common with the music as with the poetry of the Baroque. As in Bach's violin partitas, the poem begins with a simple statement. The voice, like the violin, is monophonic-it can project only one voice at a time, and it proceeds linearly from beginning to end.
520 $aBut if the experience of both art and world is non-linear and polyphonic-many voices clamoring simultaneously for attention-the problem for the artist is how, as the work proceeds, to suggest the presence of those other voices. Bach injects discords suggesting the presence of unheard, parallel harmonic structures; Kozer changes tone, linguistic class, reference, and language itself, each echoing beyond its enunciation.The "logic" of the movement moment to moment within Kozer's poems is often profoundly non-logical-the accident of two words sharing a phoneme may lead from one universe of allusion to another, one image suggesting the next. By the poem's end a tangle of pheonomena has been projected and a path found through it. This can be a dizzying experience for reader or listener. We're being asked to tease out the complexities as we proceed, and we can only proceed by immersion.
520 $aIt's as if we were being invited into an environment in which lights constantly flicker, revealing for a moment a seductive or terrifying detail from which we can construct a space of terror or delight."--Publisher's website.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 19-21).
650 0 $aCuban poetry$vTranslations into English.
700 1 $aWeiss, Mark,$etr.
700 1 $aRothenberg, Jerome,$d1931-$eblurb writer.
710 2 $aJunction Press,$epublisher.
752 $aUnited States$bNew York$dNew York.
700 1 $aWeiss, Mark,$eed. & trans.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aKozer, José$sPoems. English & Spanish. Selections.$tStet.$dNew York : Junction Press, c2006$w(OCoLC)659329880
988 $a20070103
906 $0OCLC