Authors: Francisca Aguirre, Ana Valverde Osan
ISBN-13: 9781929918607, ISBN-10: 1929918607
Format: Paperback
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ana Osan was born in Tangier, Morocco, where she attended French schools and received her baccalaureat. She attended Indiana University Northwest where she majored in English, French, and Spanish. She received a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has been an assistant professor of Spanish at Indiana University Northwest since 2000. Her specialty is poetry by women, particularly the translation of long poems. She recently received a fellowship to translate Anne Hebert's books of poetry.
A reworking of the myth of Odysseus by a major Spanish poet. Ithaca's first English translation.
Sad beast | 19 | |
Ithaca | 21 | |
From without | 23 | |
The comrades | 25 | |
Sisyphus of the cliffs | 29 | |
The oracle | 31 | |
Mirage : Penelope and Lot's wife | 33 | |
Penelope unravels | 35 | |
The object | 37 | |
The wait | 39 | |
The wind in Ithaca | 41 | |
The show | 43 | |
Monologue | 45 | |
The welcome | 47 | |
Paper landscapes | 51 | |
The dragon tree | 55 | |
The dragon tree revisited | 57 | |
November | 61 | |
The blessed ones | 63 | |
The bet | 65 | |
Orderliness | 67 | |
Discovery | 69 | |
Freedom | 71 | |
Causes | 73 | |
Farewell | 75 | |
Arithmetic | 77 | |
Cemetery | 79 | |
Totality | 81 | |
The party | 83 | |
Autophagy | 85 | |
Self-ignorance | 87 | |
The owners | 89 | |
The female gravedigger | 91 | |
The stranger | 93 | |
The requests | 95 | |
Trust | 97 | |
Black fire | 99 | |
The step | 101 | |
Listen to me | 103 | |
The certainties | 105 | |
"To last is also to live" | 109 | |
The roster | 113 | |
Murder | 115 | |
The spiral | 117 | |
Happiness | 119 | |
The wall | 121 | |
Loom | 123 |