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Girondo’s “Persuasion de los dias” 2007 Edition
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Girondo Translation 1. Vuelo Sin Orillas / Flight Without Shores
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The following poem is the first in Oliverio Girondo’s 1942 collection Persuasíon de los días (Persuasion of the Days). I translated it, tracking the interwoven themes of flight, space and distance, death/life, and dark/light, and also the ascendant movement of the poem more generally. Its abstract themes are grounded in images, the kind envisioned by [...]
Surrealist Poet Oliverio Girondo
Posted in Art, arte, Buenos Aires, literature, Poetry, Rio De La PLata, South America, Spanish, Uncategorized on February 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Oliverio Girondo is an argentine poet, born in Buenos Aires to a wealthy family, who lived from 1891- 1967. He traveled extensively between Argentina and Europe during his lifetime. His contemporaries included Jorge Luis Borges. Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca were among his friends. Abroad in France, in 1922, he published 20 Poems to [...]
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