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Vertical Poetry: Last Poems

AUTHOR

Roberto Juarroz


TRANSLATOR

Mary Crow

Vertical Poetry: Last Poems

Octavio Paz called Roberto Juarroz, one of Latin America's most distinguished contemporary poets, "a poet of absolute instants." This bilingual collection includes work from his final three books.

Reviews

"These are crystalline—oftentimes incandescent—translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems"—Jorie Graham

"Juarroz has a quiet, level voice that moves you toward surprising revelations."—


—John Felstiner

Mary Crow is a translator and former Colorado Poet Laureate. Her most recent collection is I Have Tasted the Apple.

Roberto Juarroz (5 October 1925 – 31 March 1995) was an Argentine poet famous for his "Poesía vertical" (Vertical poetry).

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