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Duelo del Lenguaje = Language Duel

by Ferre, Rosario
Duelo del Lenguaje = Language Duel

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ISBN10: 0375713840
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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 ttulo 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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In this explosive dual-language collection of new and older poems, the award-winning Puerto Rican author of "The House on the Lagoon" explores the tension between the two dominant languages of the Western hemisphere as she lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America.

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"El espa ol y el ingl s han estado en guerra desde que la Reina Isabel hundi la Armada Invencible en el 1588", escribe Rosario Fer en "Duelo del lenguaje", el poema que da t'tulo a esta colecci n; "los lenguajes llevan con sigo todo su fuego y poder o".

Ferr explora las tensiones entre lenguas y culturas a trav s de esta colecci n de car cter controversial, que se ala muchos de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta hoy una Am rica cada vez m s biling e.Estos poemas celebran tanto la antiqu sima ciudad San Juan como las metr polis m s 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 Am rica; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus ra ces cuando alguien le da un pisot n en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldici n. Fotos instant neas de los deambulantes que se desplazan por las calles de la capital, el cari o exuberante que siente un ni o por su ciudad natal, los amantes cuya memoria perdura en el recuerdo, el rumor de la lluvia en el patio de atr s, que lava el remordimiento: he aqu algunos de los temas a la vez po ticos 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 Ferr writes in the title poem of Language Duel; Language carries with it all their fire and power.

Ferr 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.


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).


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ISBN:
9780375713842
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/30/2002
Publisher:
Vintage Espanol
Series info:
Vintage Espa~nol
Language:
Spanish
Pages:
192
Height:
.52IN
Width:
5.30IN
Thickness:
.50
LCCN:
2002024966
Series:
Vintage Espa nol
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2002
Series Volume:
107-44
UPC Code:
2800375713844
Author:
Rosario Ferre
Subject:
Bilingual books
Subject:
Ferre, Rosario
Subject:
Spanish language edition. .
Subject:
Puerto Rican poetry.

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