The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz by Mara Baranda

The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz by Mara Baranda

From celebrated contemporary poets Maria Baranda and Paul Hoover, an exciting collaborative translation of the canonical poems of San Juan de la Cruz.

Praise for The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz

“This is a gorgeously presented book with equally stunning verse”—The Millions, “Must-Read Poetry of April 2021”

 “In poems that remind the reader of John Donne’s fierce, unbridled devotion, mingled with John Keats’s romanticism, people ‘suffer, grieve, and die’ at the various altars of love . . . The collection invites the acceptance of mystery ushered by the intoxicating work of devotion.” —Publishers Weekly

 “In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty . . . This new edition thrills with the adventure of it all—the soul’s adventure, Juan’s adventure. You can feel Juan’s delight in his newfound freedom, even in the midst of tremendous uncertainty.”—Amy Frykholm, The Christian Century

 “I was so impressed by [The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz] . . . [A]  revelatory new translation.”—Sharon Mesmer, Commonweal Magazine

 “These sixteenth-century poems are gathered together and given a new, contemporary voice through poets María Baranda and Paul Hoover’s co-translation . . . This is the liberatory power of retranslating classic poets: the opportunity to read differently, on top of or alongside other readings—to provide new shades of meaning, and allow other elements of the poems to shine through.”—Gabriella Martin, Action Books blog

María Baranda is a winner of major literary awards in Mexico, the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize and the Efrain Huerta National Poetry Prize, as well as Spain’s Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry. Her collections of poems include Narrar, Atlántica y el rústico, Avido mundo, Ficticia and El mar insuficiente: poemas 1989-2009 (translated into English by Joshua Edwards), and Yegua nocturna corriendo en un prado de luz absoluta (translated into English by Paul Hoover). Paul Hoover is the author of collections of poems including The Book of Unnamed Things, Desolation: Souvenir, Sonnet 56, Edge and Fold, and Poems in Spanish, which was nominated for a Bay Area Book Award. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and coeditor of the literary magazine New American Writing. He teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.

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ISBN 13	9781571314918
ISBN 10	1571314911
Title	The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz
Author	Mara Baranda
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Milkweed Editions
Year published	2021-05-27
Number of pages	120
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.