Heaven
eBook - ePub

Heaven

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

A collection of dark, funny Iberian poems about drinking, sex and death. Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the speaker moves quixotically across the map and between romances. His instinct for rhythm gives the reader a firm sense of place and tone. Universal in their concerns, taking in love and the end of love, life and the end of life, the poems are also resolutely Spanish in how they speak - bluntly, humorously - always alert for the fantastic. This is the first translation of Vilas's two major collections Heaven (El cielo, 2000) and Heat (Calor, 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into free-wheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy. The translator, James Womack, has won prizes for his versions of Vilas and of the Russian poet Mayakovsky.

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Information

Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781784108861
eBook ISBN
9781784108878
Subtopic
Poesia

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Heaven (2000)
  4. Rosaries & Flick-knives
  5. A Hundred Years Later
  6. Rosaries, Flick-Knives (poem)
  7. Macbeth
  8. Storm in the Air
  9. The Last Man
  10. Story of a Chambermaid
  11. Insomniac Whims
  12. The Last Swimmers
  13. Thirty-Six Years Old
  14. Brandeso-Station
  15. Summer Night
  16. Insomniac Memories
  17. A Poor Man’s Biarritz
  18. Story of a Chambermaid (poem)
  19. Costa Dorada
  20. Man in Love
  21. The Swimmer
  22. Trainee Vampire
  23. The Swimmer (poem)
  24. Mallorca
  25. Heaven
  26. Beech Grove
  27. The Unknown Man
  28. Light
  29. Heat (2008)
  30. Rain
  31. HU-4091-L
  32. The Tree of Life
  33. Brotherhood
  34. Mazda 6
  35. Cocaine
  36. AIDS
  37. Blood Alcohol
  38. Walk on the Wild Side
  39. Our Air
  40. Amor mío
  41. The Kids Are Alright
  42. The Crematorium
  43. Communion Rail
  44. Acknowledgements
  45. About the Author