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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)

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Author Biography: Francisca Aguirre

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.

Book Synopsis

A reworking of the myth of Odysseus by a major Spanish poet. Ithaca's first English translation.

Table of Contents

Sad beast19
Ithaca21
From without23
The comrades25
Sisyphus of the cliffs29
The oracle31
Mirage : Penelope and Lot's wife33
Penelope unravels35
The object37
The wait39
The wind in Ithaca41
The show43
Monologue45
The welcome47
Paper landscapes51
The dragon tree55
The dragon tree revisited57
November61
The blessed ones63
The bet65
Orderliness67
Discovery69
Freedom71
Causes73
Farewell75
Arithmetic77
Cemetery79
Totality81
The party83
Autophagy85
Self-ignorance87
The owners89
The female gravedigger91
The stranger93
The requests95
Trust97
Black fire99
The step101
Listen to me103
The certainties105
"To last is also to live"109
The roster113
Murder115
The spiral117
Happiness119
The wall121
Loom123

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