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Transpoetic Exchange

Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues

Tom Winterbottom editor Jamille Pinheiro Dias editor Marilia Librandi editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bucknell University Press,U.S.

Published:12th Jun '20

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Transpoetic Exchange  illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as well as Campos’ Galáxias, written from 1963 to 1976, are the main axes around which the book is organized.
 
The volume is divided into three parts. “Essays” unites seven texts by renowned scholars who focus on the relationship between the two authors, their impact and influence, and their cultural resonance by exploring explore the historical background and the different stylistic and cultural influences on the authors, ranging from Latin America and Europe to India and the U.S. The second section, “Remembrances,” collects four experiences of interaction with Haroldo de Campos in the process of transcreating Paz’s poem and working on Transblanco and Galáxias. In the last section, “Poems,” five poets of international standing--Jerome Rothenberg, Antonio Cicero, Keijiro Suga, André Vallias, and Charles Bernstein.

Paz and Campos, one from Mexico and the other from Brazil, were central figures in the literary history of the second half of the 20th century, in Latin America and beyond. Both poets signal the direction of poetry as that of translation, understood as the embodiment of otherness and of a poetic tradition that every new poem brings back as a Babel re-enacted.
 
This volume is a print corollary to and expansion of an international colloquium and poetic performance held at Stanford University in January 2010 and it offers a discussion of the role of poetry and translation from a global perspective. The collection holds great value for those interested in all aspects of literary translation and it enriches the ongoing debates on language, modernity, translation and the nature of the poetic object.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 

"Offers an homage to the creative relationship between Octavio Paz and Haroldo de Campos in a volume stemming from the eponymous Stanford University event in Winter 2010 that gathered scholars, artists and poets from all the corners of the globe....Recognizing presence and precedence, Transpoetic Exchange journeys across cultures and traditions, languages and geographies, words and the verbal rawness of blank in the page." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *

ISBN: 9781684482160

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 286g

190 pages