A Mapmaker's Diary
AUTHOR
Carlota Caulfield
TRANSLATOR
Mary G. Berg
A Mapmaker’s Diary gathers a selection of poems from both published and unpublished work in a bilingual format by this verbal acrobat, juggler of words, and magician of memory.
Reviews
“Carlota Caulfield has given us a work of great sensuality and rare luminosity, suffused with an intelligence that is both playful and meditative. Her pleasures and discoveries become ours, her tender, often sly observations are crafted for inheritance. But it is Caulfield's devotion to the daily sacred that helps inspire our own.”
— Cristina Garcia
Mary G. Berg's recent translations from Spanish include the edited volume Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now (2003) and the novels I've Forgotten Your Name (2004) by the Dominican Martha Rivera; River of Sorrows (2000) by the Argentinean Libertad Demitrópulos; and Ximena at the Crossroads (1998) by the Peruvian Laura Riesco, as well as stories, women's travel accounts, literary criticism, and collections of poetry, most recently Quincunx and The Book of Giulio Camillo by the Cuban Carlota Caulfield (Cuba). She and Dennis Maloney have translated twentieth-century Spanish poetry, including Antonio Machado's There Is No Road (2003), and The Landscape of Castile (bilingual, 2005). She teaches at Harvard Extension and is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where she writes about Latin American writers, including Clorinda Matto de Turner, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Soledad Acosta de Samper, and contemporary Cubans.
Carlota Caulfield, a poet, translator, scholar and literary critic, is the author of eleven books of poems including the prize-winning Oscuridad Divina and Movimientos metálicos para juguetes abandonados, as well as 34th Street and Other Poems, A Mapmaker's Diary, A las puertas del papel con amoroso fuego/At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire, The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory)/El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria)/Il Libro di Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria), Quincunce/Quincunx, Cuaderno Neumeister/The Neumeister Notebook, Los juguetes de Bertrand/Bertrand’s Toys and Aligrafías/Wingraphies.