The Sun Unwound: Original Texts from Occupied America [Paperback]

Edward Dorn (Translator), Gordon Brotherston (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 18, 1999

The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward Dorn and scholar Gordon Brotherston, The Sun Unwound gathers together the disparate voices of oppressed Americans through the centuries: the hymns, songs, and prayers of Mesoamericans and other native peoples; the verse of eight Latin American guerrillas of the 1960’s; and works by three of Latin America’s most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth century. The Native Americans saw their cultures obliterated, most of the guerrillas died in their struggles, and the modernists have faced persecution, prison, and torture for their left-wing convictions. Previously untranslated or unavailable to most North Americans, their poems offer a striking counterpoint to the colonialist, capitalist, Anglo-Saxon ethos.

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About the Author

Edward Dorn is a professor in the Creative Writing/English department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been the recipient of a Fullbright Lectureship at the University of Essex, a D.H. Lawrence Fellowship, an American Book Award, and an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Gordon Brotherston is a research professor at the University of Essex and Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. He helped to set up the Latin American program at the University of Essex in 1965 and has devoted his interest to the indigenous cultures which flourished for thousands of years before Columbus. He has been awarded fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the British Academy, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (February 18, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556432925
• ISBN-13: 978-1556432927
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,453,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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