Synopses & Reviews
'Con las debidas licencias' is the Spanish version of 'imprimatur' or 'nihil obstat,' the Latin used for books published under Catholic censorship. In Spanish, the title plays with the semiotic richness of the word 'license,' meaning 'liberty of action conceded' and 'abuse of freedom.' The poems of
With Leave and License strike the imagination with tenderness and nostalgia, powerful in this intelligent vision of life considered as an irreversible journey.
Synopsis
In Spanish the title plays with the semiotic richness of the word 'license, ' meaning 'liberty of action conceded' and 'abuse of freedom.' The poems of With leave and license strike the imagination with tenderness and nostalgia and rebellion against the insincere conventions of everyday life. It is powerful in its intelligent vision of life considered as an irreversible journey.
About the Author
In this, her first book of poems,
Leda Schiavo celebrates a long exile; exile from her country as much as exile from the insincere conventions of everyday life. She was born in Buenos Aires and came to Chicago in 1976. Professor Schiavo teaches Spanish Literature at the University of Illinois. El éxtasis de los límites, a critical study, is her most recent book.
Table of Contents
Frequency of the phoenix
Homage to Algernon Charles Swinburne
Air temperature at the foot of the Tibidabo
Minor obsessions
Summer in Ampurdan
Parallel lines never meet
Barcelona
six fatur lacrimans
On the way to Madrid. The werewolf
Wings of desire
Written on the side of the road
Childhood bric-a-brac, 1
Childhood bric-a-brac, 2
Without license, 1
Without license, 2
Without license, 3
Nastaggio degli Onesti less cruel, maybe
Variations on a single theme. Oboe
Poepop, 1
Poepop, 2
Poepop, 3
Requiem
Literature
Birthday
I
You
He
Hopscotch
Bolivian hanging
Twilight
New York again
Evening with a cry
Train, trains