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- Herausgeber: 2Leaf Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Spanisch
BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE by Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales presents poems that sing in the voices of native birds and speak through the devout, but subversive, Quechua artists of Peru’s colonial era. Canvas by canvas, poem by poem, Gonzales gives us a poetry collection as a living and talking museum in which the Quechua artists of Peru’s past demonstrate both their sincere Christian faith and their opposition to the Spanish destruction of the Inca empire. By extension, it shows how artists may put forth their views when prevailing circumstances make outward protest a perilous option.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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"A haunting gallery of indigenous painters from colonial Peru, most anonymous, is finally mapped out by Quechua poet Odi Gonzales in this admirable collection. I was reminded of W.G. Sebald’s exploration of the Nazi ghosts sprinkled all over the German landscape. Through Lynn Levin’s lucid renditions, the painters’ eyes become ours, and so does Cusco, the heart of the Inca Empire, which, under the Spaniards, became one of Dante’s circles of hell. Among these artists, dignity and resistance were synonymous. And, from misery, they drew the contours of a new civilization. Poetry, Gonzales persuades us, is a tool to unveil the past, to come face to face with history."
— Ilan Stavans editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
"Powerful, stunningly beautiful, teeming with indigenous life like the paintings of the seventeenth-century Quechua artists who appropriated and transformed the art and religion of their colonizers, Odi Gonzales’ poetry celebrates the culture of his native Peru. This bilingual edition offers readers an eye-opening, rich and transformative experience. Lynn Levin’s translation captures the power and nuanced registers of Odi Gonzales’ tour de force: a gift to Anglophone readers!"
— Thalia Pandiri Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Smith College; Editor-in-Chief, Metamorphoses
"With the publication of Birds on the Kiswar Tree, translator Lynn Levin has faithfully introduced an important world poet into the English language. In the nativist spirit of César Vallejo and the Cusqueño School of resistance painting, Odi Gonzales’ poems articulate and negotiate the harrowing terrain of Peruvian cultural identity. Woven of Spanish Catholic and indigenous Quechua colors, these pages shimmer like angels in an Andean Eden! As necessary acts of recovery, revelation, and love, Gonzales’ poems build a multidimensional temple in honor of the cunning and resilience of a people who whispered their very souls into their art."
— Chad Sweeney, author of Parable of Hide and Seek
"Birds on the Kiswar Tree is a powerful, poignant and compelling series of poems, truly a verbal museum or gallery of works by underappreciated artists quietly defying their oppressors. “I am the apocryphal archangel . . . the bastard bereft of my heritage,” exclaims one illiterate Quechua painter who speaks in these pages — one of the indigenous artists of the Cusqueñan School of the late 16th and early 17th centuries in the subjugated Inca kingdom of the Andean highlands. 'I am the Anonymous One of The Almudena Church,' declares another of these "artisans / [who] did not know / how to sign their own names or read or write" and yet filled the colonial churches of their conquerors with glorious visions, taking the Christian myths imposed by Spanish force upon the Quechua people and transposing their signs and scenes into indigenous natural historical and devotional terms. Peruvian-Quechua poet Odi Gonzales has dramatized the voices of these quiet but persistently subversive painter-personae, their colonial overlords, and the depicted biblical figures themselves; and translator Lynn Levin has faithfully rendered these voices into English. That a Peruvian poet can resurrect such voices now bespeaks the ultimate survival of Quechua culture which, though it may seem exotic to some readers, speaks through these poems to anyone who has lived — historically or imaginatively — under a repressive regime and who seeks a means of artistic resistance."
— Carolyne Wright, American Book Award, Blue Lynx Prize, National Translation Award
— Urayoán Noel, poet and scholar, SUNY Albany
Poems by Odi Gonzales
A Bilingual Spanish/English Edition Translated by Lynn Levin
2LP TRANSLATIONS
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Copyright © 2005 by Odi Gonzales
English translation, glossary, and introduction, Copyright © 2011 by Lynn E. Levin
LA ESCUELA DE CUSCO by Odi Gonzales was first published by Ediciones el Santo Oficio-Gráficos, Santiago de Surco, Peru. Copyright © 2005 Ediciones el Santo Oficio Gráficos S. R. L.
BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE BY ODI GONZALES, Copyright © 2014 by 2Leaf Press. All rights reserved under international and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of this author's rights is appreciated. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in or introduced in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of both the copyright owner and 2LEAF PRESS, an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), the publisher of this book, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013958333 Print Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-24-7ePub Edition, 978-1-940939-25-4
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Credits
Cover Art: Eugen Berlo, Copyright © 2009
Odi Gonzales Author Photo: Juha Varvikko
Lynn Levin Author Photo: Beverly Collins-Roberts
Book design and layout: Gabrielle David, www.gabrielle-david.com
A María Nieves Arcángel, Lauren y Benjamin (To María Nieves Arcángel, Lauren and Benjamin)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE the publications in which these translations, sometimes in earlier versions, first appeared:
The Dirty Goat: “The Procession of the Corpus Christi” / “La procesión del corpus,” “The Paradise of the Vaulted Ceiling” / “El paraíso de la bóveda baída,” “Suzanna and the Elders” / “Susana y los viejos,” and “The Watcher of the Skies” / “El observador de los cielos”
E-Verse Radio: “Baradiel Loading Gunpowder into His Harquebus” and “The Last Supper”
Mandorla: “Mary Anoints the Feet of Jesus,” “Writers Recount the Life and Deeds of Saint Catherine of Siena,” “Judgment, Salvation and the Suffering of the Damned,” and “The Army of God”
Metamorphoses: “Apprentice Painters”/“Los aprendices,” “God Shows Paradise to Adam and Eve” / “Dios muestra paraíso a Adán y Eva,” and “The Prodigal Son”/“El hijo pródigo”
Michigan Quarterly Review: “Matrimonio de Don Martín de Loyola con Doña Beatriz Ñusta”/“The Marriage of Don Martín de Loyola and Doña Beatriz Ñusta,” “El taller de Nazareth” / “The Workshop of Nazareth,” and “San José, la Virgen y el Niño”/“Saint Joseph, the Virgin and the Child”
Off the Coast: “Adoration of the Shepherds”/“Adoración de los pastores”
Parthenon West Review: “Saint Isidore, the Farmer”/“San Isidro labrador” and “Descent of the Virgin to the Sunturwasi”/“Descendimiento de la Virgen en sunturwasi”
PennSound/PennSonido: “The Last Supper”/“La ultima cena,” “Baradiel Loading Gunpowder into His Harquebus”/“Baradiel cargando con pólvora su arcabús,” “Descent of the Virgin to the Sunturwasi”/“Descendimiento de la Virgen en sunturwasi,” and “The Marriage of Don Martín de Loyola and Doña Beatriz Ñusta” / “Matrimonio de Don Martín de Loyola con Doña Beatriz Ñusta”
Per Contra: “The Last Supper”/“La última cena”
Poetry Miscellany: “Baradiel Loading Gunpowder into His Harquebus”/“Baradiel cargando con pólvora su arcabús,” “The Fallen Woman” / “La adúltera,” “The Unknown Artist/His Early Works”/“El pintor/Los artificios,” “Portrait of Don Manuel Mollinedo y Angulo, Bishop of Cusco”/“Retrato de Don Manuel Mollinedo y Angulo obispo del Cusco,” and “The Expulsion from Paradise”/“La Expulsión del paraíso”
The Portable Boog Reader 4: “Studies of Angels” / “Estudios de ángeles” and “Lamentation of Mary before the Body of Christ” / “Lamentación de María ante el cadáver de Cristo”
