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Adrián Javier (DR Books #6)

February 12, 2011 by E. Rowan

El bosque enfrentado by Adrián Javier. Casa de Teatro, 2008. Adrián Javier (1967-) has published eleven books, and received most of the major literary prizes in the Dominican, including the Premio Internacional de Poesía Casa de Teatro twice. He belongs to the generation of poets who started publishing in the 80s, and his poetry bears some resemblance to José Mármol’s – prose, philosophical, hermetic. He doesn’t have much web presence, but in one interview he’s called the “enfant terible” of […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 80s, Adrián Javier, Dominican Republic, poetry

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Bernardo Silfa (DR Books #5)

February 12, 2011 by E. Rowan

Máscara de la imago by Bernardo Silfa. Casa de Teatro, 2005). Bernardo Silfa (1964-) doesn’t appear to be very prolific. This slim volume, a single sequence of 25 poems, seems to be his second book of poems. But it won the prestigious Internacional de Poesía de Casa de Teatro. His work has been included in two recent anthologies, and written about critically. This work edges on the transcendental and the metapoetic, is definitively lyrical and sonically dense. http://palabralma-palabralma.blogspot.com/2010/02/en-bernardo-silfa-bor-los-caminos-de-la.html

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Bernardo Silfa, Dominican Republic, poetry

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Freddy Gatón Arce (DR Books #4)

February 12, 2011 by E. Rowan

La canción de la hetera by Freddy Gatón Arce. Editora Taller, 1992. Freddy Gatón Arce (1920-1994) is a founding member of “Poesía Soprendida,” poet and journalist. He’s won just about every major literary award in the Dominican, his work is the subject of much critical study across Latin America. As far as I can tell his work is wholly unavailable in English. This book is a slim, non-representative volume, but they didn’t have his complete works which I’m still trying […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dominican Republic, Freddy Gatón Arce, Poesía Soprendida, poetry

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Franklin Mieses Burgos (DR Books #3)

February 12, 2011 by E. Rowan

Obras Completas by Franklin Mieses Burgos. Colección Bibliófilos, 2000. Franklin Mieses Burgos (1907-1976) was a member of the literary movement “Poesía Soprendida” (lit. “Surprised Poetry”); strongly surrealist and simultaneously anti-dictatorial. A critic describes his work as characterized by profound lyricism, at times existential, at times political, and almost always surreal. It falls into three categories: the hermetic (strongly surreal), the formal and classic sonnets, and the popular. The critic believes the surreal work to be his best. He is considered […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dominican Republic, Franklin Mieses Burgos, modernismo, Poesía Soprendida, poetry, vanguardismo

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Mateo Morrison (DR Books #2)

February 12, 2011 by E. Rowan

Ojos de madre, vientos de guerra by Mateo Morrison. Mateo Morrison (1946-) is a poet-lawyer who upholds the tradition of advocacy in his work. He’s published 36 books of poetry, criticism and essays. In 2010 he was awarded the National Literature Prize, which is the most significant literary prize in the Dominican Republic. He’s incredibly prolific, and clearly indebted to Neruda in his work. This book is written for the 45th anniversary of the revolution in April 1965 which led […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dominican Republic, Mateo Morrison, poetry, political poetry, translation

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José Enrique García (DR Books #1)

February 11, 2011 by E. Rowan

El fabulador: Poesía reunida, 1977-2002 by José Enrique García. A good sign for me that I’m interested in a book is if I immediately start coming up with possible translations in my head as I’m reading it. And that happened for me with the title of this anthology, which is also the title of García’s second book which won a significant poetry prize. I want to translate it “The Fabulator” though I recognize that “Fabulist” is the literal word. I […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dominican Republic, José Enrique García, poetry

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Femi-lision, Dominican women and VIDA

February 11, 2011 by E. Rowan

I’m about done writing up my book purchases from the Dominican Republic, which I’ll begin posting soon enough, and more for me to keep track of them in one place than anything else (though perhaps someone will find them interesting/useful). Anyway, there’s been a lot of hubbub this past week since VIDA released their study on the representation of women in publishing. Unsurprisingly, the situation is not so good. Fewer (by half or more) women are published or reviewed by […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dominican Republic, gender theory, poetry, translation, VIDA, women poets

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Praises & Offenses

January 12, 2011 by E. Rowan

I finished reading this morning the anthology Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic. The poets are Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Nunez and Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo (those names are all missing their accents, because my little cheap portable pc sucks and won’t accept key-commands for accents). The translator is Judith Kerman, the publisher is Boa Editions, it came out in 2009. I started writing what I thought would be a brief summary of the book to put […]

Categories: Reviews, Translation • Tags: Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Nunez, BOA Editions, Dominican Republic, Judith Kerman, poetry, review, translation, Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo

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Tres Ojos

January 10, 2011 by E. Rowan

Today I did not meet my goal. Today I was not as productive as I intended to be. Today, I went to Los Tres Ojos, an underground cave system in the east part of Santo Domingo. It was amazing. So though no excuse, it did take up the bulk of my day, plus by the time we got back to our neighborhood I was boiling in the heat and humidity. But I did get 1/2 of the way through Praises […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Dominican Republic, Judith Kerman, poetry, review, translation

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Dominican Literature

January 8, 2010 by E. Rowan

A good friend of mine who is dominicana and I have been talking a lot about translating a book or few from the DR together. She’s not a literature person, but she has the intimate knowledge (or access to it) of the literary landscape that I don’t have. I think this all started on a field trip to the stacks at Widener last year to scour the Latin American poetry section for Puerto Rican poetry. We found not that much […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Azul Editions, caribbean, Dominican Republic, poetry, Puerto Rico, translation

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