{"product_id":"night-journey-9780691090986","title":"Night Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of South America's most celebrated contemporary poets takes us on a fantastic voyage to mysterious lands and seas, into the psyche, and to the heart of the poem itself. \u003ci\u003eNight Journey\u003c\/i\u003e is the English-language debut of the work that won María Negroni an Argentine National Book Award. It is a book of dreams--dreams she renders with surreal beauty that recalls the work of her compatriot Alejandra Pizarnik, with the penetrating subtlety of Borges and Calvino. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In sixty-two tightly woven prose poems, Negroni deftly infuses haunting imagery with an ironic, personal spirituality. Effortlessly she navigates the nameless subject to the slopes of the Himalayas, to a bar in Buenos Aires, through war, from icy Scandinavian landscapes to the tropics, across seas, toward a cemetery in the wake of Napoleon's hearse, by train, by taxis headed in unrequested directions, past mirrors and birds, between life and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight Journey\u003c\/i\u003e reflects a mastery of a traditional form while brilliantly expressing a modern condition: the multicultural, multifaceted individual, ever in motion. Displacement abounds: a \"medieval tabard\" where a pelvis should be, a \"lipless grin,\" a \"beach severed from the ocean.\" In one poem \"nomadic cities\" whisk past. In another, smiling cockroaches loom in a visiting mother's eyes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anne Twitty, whose elegant translations are accompanied by the Spanish originals, remarks in her preface that the book's \"indomitable literary intelligence\" subdues an unspoken terror--helplessness. Yet, as observed by the angel Gabriel, the consoling voice of wisdom, only by accepting the journey for what it is can one discover its \"hidden splendor,\" the \"invisible center of the poem.\" As readers of this magnificent work will discover, this is a journey that, because its every fleeting image conjures a thousand words of fertile silence, can be savored again and again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e María Negroni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 5.52w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691090986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCriticas\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2003 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaría Negroni\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Argentina in 1951. Recipient of the 2000-2001 Octavio Paz Fellowship for Poetry, she has published a novel, two books of essays, and six books of poetry in her native Spanish, one of which has previously appeared in bilingual editions in the United States. \u003ci\u003eNight Journey\u003c\/i\u003e is the English-language debut of \u003ci\u003eEl viaje de la noche\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), which received an Argentine National Book Award in 1997. Her translations from French and English have been widely published. She teaches Latin American Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. \u003cb\u003eAnne Twitty\u003c\/b\u003e has translated books and numerous shorter works into English by Negroni, the \u003ci\u003eCuban poet Magali Alabau\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She was formerly editor of the Epicycle section of \u003ci\u003eParabola\u003c\/i\u003e, in which she published essays on myth, creation, and memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087129948275,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b70080d4-9f02-4547-99e6-0d1ddeef7e2e.jpg?v=1652538457","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/night-journey-9780691090986","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}