Lost cities go to paradise = las ciudades perdidas van al paraíso /
"In Lost Cities Go to Paradise, poetry breaks into song and poetic prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of qui...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Language Notes: | Parallel text in English and Spanish; translated from the Spanish. |
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Chicago :
Swan Isle Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "In Lost Cities Go to Paradise, poetry breaks into song and poetic prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. At the center of Borinsky's work are the cities, which are a masquerade of disaster and spectacle that moves through space and time. Within these cities reside a man with two bills who gives three out of generosity, a woman who hides her face so that she may be better seen, cheating lovers who betray only to end up entwined in a tango, and immigrants who borrow each other's accents. Filled with energy and irreverence, Lost Cities Go to Paradise captures the indignities and excitement of living among others in a society and discovering what is valued--and all that is not"-- |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Spanish as Las ciudades perdidas van al paraíso (Buenos Aires : Corregidor, c2003). This is a bilingual edition of poetry and prose, written [in] the original Spanish by Alicia Borinsky, translated by Regina Galasso with the poet" -- Publisher's note." |
| Physical Description: | xv, 193 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780983322078 0983322074 |