Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems (NYRB Poets)

ISBN: 1590178742

Author: Mutis, Alvaro

Condition: New

Peer to Gabriel Garca Marquez and Octavio Paz, lvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the twentieth century, and this collection brings together the best of Mutis's largely unknown body of poetry.lvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as he knows that neither can or will last.Few know, however, that Maqroll made his first appearance, and established his myth, not in prose but in poetry. Starting 1948, Mutis published several volumes of poetry influenced by surrealists like Robert Desnos and Pablo Neruda, but with an unmistakable voice of his own, gaining the admiration of Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garca Mrquez, who called him one of the greatest writers of our time. Here a bilingual selection of Mutiss haunting poems-invocations to a hidden god, private talismans of an outcast spirit-has been rendered into English by Chris Andrews, Kristin Dykstra, Edith Grossman, and Alastair Reid.

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