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Rosario Ferre (Author)
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July 30, 2002
"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferré explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America.
In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave after wave of conquerors wash across the Americas. A well-dressed Latino businessman inadvertently reveals his roots at the Ritz when someone steps on his foot, eliciting a profanity--in Spanish. Intimate snapshots capture the nameless heroism of homeless men, the exuberance of a child's affection for her hometown, and memories of lovers.

“El español y el inglés han estado en guerra desde que la Reina Isabel hundió la Armada Invencible en el 1588”, escribe Rosario Feré en “Duelo del lenguaje”, el poema que da t’tulo a esta colección; “los lenguajes llevan con sigo todo su fuego y poderío”. Ferré explora las tensiones entre lenguas y culturas a través de esta colección de carácter controversial, que señala muchos de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta hoy una América cada vez más bilingüe.
Estos poemas celebran tanto la antiquísima ciudad San Juan como las metrópolis más modernas: Miami, Nueva York, WDC. Pasado y presente, historia y sociedad se mezclan con una inmediatez sorprendente. Ola tras ola de conquistadores estalla sobre Norte América; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus raíces cuando alguien le da un pisotón en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldición. Fotos instantáneas de los deambulantes que se desplazan por las calles de la capital, el cariño exuberante que siente un niño por su ciudad natal, los amantes cuya memoria perdura en el recuerdo, el rumor de la lluvia en el patio de atrás, que lava el remordimiento: he aquí algunos de los temas a la vez poéticos y cotidianos que se recogen en este libro.

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"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferré explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America.
In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave after wave of conquerors wash across the Americas. A well-dressed Latino businessman inadvertently reveals his roots at the Ritz when someone steps on his foot, eliciting a profanity--in Spanish. Intimate snapshots capture the nameless heroism of homeless men, the exuberance of a child's affection for her hometown, and memories of lovers.

?El español y el inglés han estado en guerra desde que la Reina Isabel hundió la Armada Invencible en el 1588?, escribe Rosario Feré en ?Duelo del lenguaje?, el poema que da t?tulo a esta colección; ?los lenguajes llevan con sigo todo su fuego y poderío?. Ferré explora las tensiones entre lenguas y culturas a través de esta colección de carácter controversial, que señala muchos de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta hoy una América cada vez más bilingüe.
Estos poemas celebran tanto la antiquísima ciudad San Juan como las metrópolis más modernas: Miami, Nueva York, WDC. Pasado y presente, historia y sociedad se mezclan con una inmediatez sorprendente. Ola tras ola de conquistadores estalla sobre Norte América; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus raíces cuando alguien le da un pisotón en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldición. Fotos instantáneas de los deambulantes que se desplazan por las calles de la capital, el cariño exuberante que siente un niño por su ciudad natal, los amantes cuya memoria perdura en el recuerdo, el rumor de la lluvia en el patio de atrás, que lava el remordimiento: he aquí algunos de los temas a la vez poéticos y cotidianos que se recogen en este libro.

About the Author

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosario Ferré is Puerto Rico's leading woman of letters. She has written novels, poetry, short fiction, children's books, biography, and literary criticism in Spanish and English. She received the Liberatur Prix in Germany for Sweet Diamond Dust in 1992, and was a Natoinal Book Award finalsit for The House on the Lagoon in 1995. Her novels have been published in many languages and she translates her own fiction into Spanish. Her most recent novel, Flight of the Swan, was published in 2001. She lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.


A NOTE ABOUT THE CO-TRANSLATOR
Alan West Durán is a poet, translator, and writer. He won the 1996 Latino Literature Prize fro Poetry with Finding Voices in the Rain. He recently published El tejido de Asterió o las máscaras del logos (2000), a book-length poem, and translated Alejo Carpentier's Music in Cuba (2001).

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; Bilingual edition (July 30, 2002)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 0375713840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375713842
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #990,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, December 22, 2003
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This review is from: Duelo del lenguaje/Language Duel (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
In this book, celebrated Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferré confronts English and Spanish in a Duel. This book of poetry is very interesting, on the left pages we have the poems in English and on the right we have the poem in Spanish. The comparison is very interesting and it is fun to decipher which was the original language of the poem. It seems they were all written in Spanish first, but I'm not sure.
The translations into English are excellent and sometimes (rarely) the poem is better in English than in Spanish.
Some poems are really good, and others are well, bad amd boring.
I recommend this book because the comparison and contrast of the two languages is extremely interesting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Review of Ferre's Language Duel, August 18, 2009
This review is from: Duelo del lenguaje/Language Duel (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
I emphasize first my one criticism of this work: its name implies that it is a "dual-language" work, designed as a side-by-side translation with English and Spanish. This is true in some sense, but the translations are done loosely to maintain poetic splendor.

Moderate- to advanced-level Spanish speakers, as well as English lovers of poetry, will certainly appreciate these wonderful poems. Rosario Ferre's talent as a poet should go unchallenged; her metaphors and imagery speak strongly to her talent as an artist.

For those Spanish students brave enough to test the waters of reading Spanish with only a loose guide in English, this is an absolutely wonderful collection of poems, covering a variety of topics in cultura puertorriquena, ustadounidense y europa.
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