Product Description
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 celebration of place, bringing together—in one impressionistic whole—the light, the sea, buildings, birds and history—and Amorgos’s history goes back beyond Classical Greece, to the obscure period almost five thousand years ago, which saw the creation of the remarkable sculptures now known as Cycladic.
About the Author
Elsa Cross was born in Mexico City in 1946. Her Collected Poems appeared in 2013 from the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico City. Her book El diván de Antar (1990) was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes (1989), and Moira (1993) won the Premio Internacional de Poesía Jaime Sabines (1992), both in Mexico. Jaguar (2002), is inspired by different symbols and places of ancient Mexico. Some more recent books form a trilogy: Los sueños – Elegías, Ultramar – Odas, and El vino de las cosas, Ditirambos. Books in other countries include a wide selection of her poetry, Miroir au soleil (Brussels, 1996) translated into French by Fernand Verhesen with a foreword by Octavio Paz, and other titles published in Canada and Spain. Her poems have been translated into twelve languages and published in magazines and more than sixty anthologies in different countries. She has also published essays. She has an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she holds a professorship and teaches Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Mythology. In 2008 Elsa Cross was awarded the most prestigious poetry prize in Mexico, the Xavier Villurrutia Prize, an award that she shared with Pura López-Colomé.
Tony Frazer is the editor of Shearsman magazine and the publisher of Shearsman Books. Occasionally active as a translator from German and Spanish, he has published English translations of Lutz Seiler, Vasily Kandinsky, Sabine Scho and Vicente Huidobro.
Luis Ingelmo (Valencia, 1970) now lives in his native Spain, but spent a number of years living and working in Chicago. He has translated a number of books into English together with the late Michael Smith, and has translated into Spanish the work of Derek Walcott, Martin Carter, Natasha Trethewey, Wole Soyinka, Thomas MacGreevey and Christopher Marlowe.