Save Twilight: Selected Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Julio Cortazar (Author), Stephen Kessler (Translator)

Book Description

Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series | Publication Date: January 1, 2001

The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.

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After Such Pleasures
After The Party
Air Of The South
Autumn Summary
Blue Funk
The Brief Love
The Ceremony
Chronicle For Caesar
Clearance Sale
Clearcut
Dream On Fearlessly, Friend
Friends
The Future
Get A Move On
The Getaway Polka
The Gods
The Good Boy
The Happy Child
Happy New Year
The Hero
If I'm To Live
Infinite Voyage
Inflation Lies
The Knitters
Law Of The Poem
Le Dome
A Love Letter
Maybe The Most Beloved
Milonga
Moths
Nocturne
The Other
Poem
Polychrony
The Pretender
Profit And Loss
Return Trip
Sidewalks Of Buenos Aires
A Song For Nina
A Sonnet In A Pensive Mood
Speak, You Have Three Minutes
Stele At A Crossroads
Time's Distribution
To A God Unknown
To A Woman
To Be Read In The Interrogative
The Visit
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers; First edition. edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0872863336
• ISBN-13: 978-0872863330
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,312,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "If I'm to live without you, let it be hard and bloody", January 15, 2000

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This review is from: Save Twilight: Selected Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Cortazar seizes the heart, the throat, the gut... every part of the body. As with most great poetry, critical and interpretive words will not suffice; poetry must speak for itself. Cortazar's simplicity and force lies in its ability to speak volumes all on its own. From his insistent "I accept this destiny of ironed shirts,/I get to the movies on time, I give my seat to old ladies." in "The Good Boy" to his exquisitely simple, "Everything I'd want from you/is finally so little/ because finally it's everything", Cortazar describes simply what it is to feel.

Most importantly, this book is in Spanish and English, so linguistic purists will be able to compare the original with the translation (which for me is also the mark of an excellent book.)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It'll leave you wondering..., May 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Save Twilight: Selected Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

... if you're dreaming, if you're breathing air or poetry. This book will make you want to write, it'll make you want to read it again and again, it'll sometimes leave you speechless and breathless, and some other times eager to go and tell others to read it. I must have read it as a whole at least eight times and some poems must've entered through my eyes at least 30 times. And I always return to it. It feels like home.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars some of the best poems i've read, July 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Save Twilight: Selected Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

julio cortazar's poems are truly great. they're simple, beautiful and sad. i recommend anybody who loves or likes poetry to read this book. i keep coming back to cortazar's poems all the time. his poems are written very beautifully. like this line " i was a tango lyric to your indifferent tune."