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1 sound disc (1 hr., 1 min., 1 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Esteban Peicovich interviews writer, translator, and teacher Jenaro Taléns. Taléns was born in Tarifa, Andalucia, Spain in 1946. He has translated the work of Shakespeare, Beckett, Holderlin, Goethe, Wallace Stevens, Hermann Hesse, and German Expressionists. Taléns explains the commonalities between his professions as writer, translator, and teacher. He explains what poetry gives the ability to transcend and how a poem's creative thought process occurs. He also explains what he attempts to do as a translator and how he goes about it. Peicovich reads the inside cover of Cenizas de sentido by Taléns. Taléns explains why he is anti-autobiographical poetry, but he explains the way in which his work his relevant to him. He also talks about the writing styles of authors such as Beckett and Dotremont. Taléns talks about Arabic culture, Hispanic self-identity, and its poetry. Taléns gives his take on how culture goes about the creation of words. He reads poems from his work Cenizas de sentido and tells of his discovery of Borges' neighboring cemetery.
Converted with permission from sound cassette to compact disc by the Texas A&M University Libraries.
Interviewer, Esteban Peicovich ; interviewee, Jenaro Taléns.
Originally broadcast from Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 8, 2000 as a segment of the radio program Los Palabristas.
Reproduction. Taléns, Jenaro, 1946- Jenaro Taléns. [2000] 1 sound cassette : analog.