Peatlands - Serrano, Pedro

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Résumé :
These poems are wide ranging and passionate. Linguistically thrilling, they explore the world of snakes, swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and love. Reading through the eclectic subjects, provokes a sense of searching, a sense of chaos from which ultimately grows a unification of all things

Biographie:
Pedro Serrano has published five collections of poems. He has co-edited and co-translated the groundbreaking anthology 'The Lamb Generation' which brought together translations of 30 contemporary British poets in 2000. His libretto for the opera 'Marimbas de l'Exile/El Norte en Veracruz' was first staged in Besancon France in January 2000, then travelled to Paris and Mexico. He has also translated Shakespeare's King John into Spanish. Many of his poems have been translated into English and have been published in widely in the UK and abroad. He teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, and is editor of UNAM's highly-regarded poetry website, 'Periodico de Poesia'

Sommaire:
Introduction EL MIEDO / FEAR / Dibujo de las cosas * Sketch of things / El agua que bebemos * The water that we drink / La lluvia seca * Dry rain / Reconstruccion * Rebuilding / Desecacion * Desiccation / El sol en ascuas * The sun on live coals / La fuerza * Strength / IGNORANCIA / La sirena * The mermaid / La vendedora * Saleswoman / La condena * The sentence / Las hojas, segunda estancia * Leaves, second dwelling / Tres canciones lunaticas * Three lunatic songs / Confianza del viento * The wind's trust / TURBA / No hay / posesion - * There is no ownership - / Todo se apelotona - * Everything coagulates - / El dolor de los dientes - * Toothache - / Cae el saco oscuro de avispas - * Dark with wasps - / Una brujula azul - * A blue compass-needle - / Lo que tengo es la pluma - * What I have is the pen - / Este es el punto ciego del agua - * This is water's blind spot - / Como un caracol sordo - * Like a deaf snail - / Contra si mismo el cuerpo se revuelve - * The body turns round upon itself - / NUECES / Tuscania * Tuscania / Puerto * Port / Tormenta en Tollington Way * Storm on Tollington Way / Colebrook Row * Colebrook Row / Regent's Canal * Regent's Canal / Revolver * Revolver / Serpiente * Snake / El escriba * The scribe / El arte de fecar * The liminating art / Rosario * Rosary / Lustral * Lustral / Desplazamiento de la copa * The glass displaced / / Los pies * Feet / Acotamiento * Drawing the boundary / RONDA DEL MIG / Golondrinas * Swallows / Jardin de Rodin * Rodin's garden / Escolares en Via Augusta * Schoolchildren on Via Augusta / Cala de Aiguafreda * The cove at Aiguafreda / En capilla * Inside the chapel / Biographical Notes