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By the close of the twentieth century, the brilliant poets that had emerged from the Americas included Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro, and Octavio Paz. To this list must be added Jorge Carrera Andrade, an Ecuadorian, who spent his entire adult life traveling as a diplomat, politician, and poet. Despite a brief flurry of attention generated in the United States by his book, Secret Country (New York: MacMillan, 1946), published just after he served as Ecuadorian Consul General to the United States in San Francisco, Andrade has since been forgotten by American anthologists and literary critics. But in fact the late Andrade was a leading figure in Latin American letters. This volume of his poetry was selected and translated by Steven Ford Brown and is presented in both Spanish and English. ... Read more

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Absolutely amazing writing
I discovered the poetry of Jorge Carrerra Andrade about 5 years ago while I rummaged through the books in the Latin American Literature section of the Binghamton University library.It turned out that Jorge Carrerra Andrade was once a professor at the State University of New York, at Stoney Brooke.I found that interesting because Binghamton was a S.U.N.Y. school as well.I found a book titled Selected poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade.This book blew me away.I never read anyone who could describe so much beauty in a few stanzas.I later learned that this was a political person from Ecuador who was once nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature and who was considered the foremost Spanish language writer of his time.Why didn't he get the Nobel...Well, for the same reason Tolstoy, Kafka, and Woolf didn't get one...I guess the judges don't know much...A bunch of Academics...

Steven Ford Brown did an excellent translation.No doubt about it.However, some of these poems can also be found translated in an earlier book titled Selected poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade.It was published by the State University of New York Press in 1972.I forgot who the translator was, but I remember comparing Mr. Browns translation to the 1972 translation and I felt that the latter was a lot better.It flowed better, and was more musical to my mind.The differences were extremely minute.But there is a subtle difference in the translation that makes a noticeable difference to me.

Now, of course the translation-criticism part of this review is simply my opinion.Some people might say Brown did a better translation.Perhaps his English is more poetic to some.The important thing is that the differences are subtle and both translations are great.

Read Jorge Carrerra Andrade.If you like poetry you owe it to yourself!Other books include....Secret Country (1922), Catalogue of the Apple (1935), Hour of the Lighted Windows (1937); and Poetic Eras (1958).Many of the poems in these volumes are contained in Selected poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade.If you are able to get this book in addition to this one, that's a beautiful thing.

A work of remarkably impressive poetry
Century Of The Death Of The Rose by Jorge Carrera Andrade (a nominee of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature), is a work of remarkably impressive poetry, offered in its original Spanish side by side with flawless English translations by Steven Ford Brown. Moving parables of the beauty and frailty of life itself are deftly combined with a heartfelt expression of wonder in the hidden treasures of natural and spiritual existence to make for an emotionally moving collection. Movements of Nature: Tree-bark listens to the rustle of plants and insects / as wind softly ruminates through the field. / The pond takes down a note in its memory / of kinship between the smallest clouds and geese. ... Read more

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A masterful book, by a worthy poet
This century Ecuador has given the world many great poets, like Jorge Enrique Adoum and Efrain Jadra Idrovo.But no other Ecuadorian poet has gained as much international fame as Jorge Carrera Andrade, the author ofthis book.In this book Jorge Carrera Andrade reflects on Spanish-Americanpoetry.No other writer of Latin America is better capable of doing such athing.Jorge Carrera Andrade examines Spanish-American poetry and all ofits meanings, and the book's manner of teaching us about Spanish-Americanpoetry reminds us that he was a professor of Spanish-American literature atthe State University of New York at Stony Brook.Since Jorge CarreraAndrade was considered not only Ecuador's finest poet, but one of thiscentury's foremost Spanish-language poets worldwide, it is fair to say thathis reflections on Spanish-American poetry are a treasure that we shouldprotect and cherish. ... Read more

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Chapters: Alejandro Carrión, Karina Galvez, Jorge Carrera Andrade, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Fanny Carrión de Fierro, Iván Carvajal, María Fernanda Espinosa, César Dávila Andrade, the Poets of Elan, Ignacio Lasso, Jose María Egas, Ileana Espinel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 4 January 1992) was born in Loja, Ecuador. A poet, novelist and enthusiastic journalist, he published two important novels, La manzana dañada and La espina, many books of short stories, and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión Mora. Alejandro Carrión wrote articles and political commentary in the following periodicals and newspapers: A selection of Alejandro Carrión's poetry was recorded in Quito for the Library of Congress in Washington; a copy of that recording is housed at Harvard Universitys "House of the Poetry". Alejandro told of his emotional reaction to hearing his own words when visiting in the company of the poet Archibald McLeish: "small satisfactions that illuminate the life of a poet." ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1322182 ... Read more

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Chapters: Carlos Cueva Tamariz, José Ayala Lasso, Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Jorge Carrera Andrade, María Fernanda Espinosa, Gonzalo Zaldumbide. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carlos Cueva Tamariz ( November 5, 1898 April 8, 1991) was an Ecuadorian politician, lawyer and university professor. Carlos Cueva was born on November 5, 1898 the first son of Agustín Cueva Muñoz and his wife Domitila Tamariz Larrea in Cuenca. His father was a journalist and politician that later worked at the Azuay Province's Government and at the City Hall of Cuenca. The family moved to Milagro when he was three, where his father worked as book keeper. 1904 the family returned to Cuenca and Cueva was educated at the catholic elementary school "San José de los HH.CC." Later he went to the "Colegio Seminario" High School until it closed on 1912. Finally, on 1916 he graduated from High School at the "Benigno Malo" after attending one year with a scholarship the Agriculture School of Córdoba. Cueva attended the University of Cuenca, where he graduated as a lawyer on 1922. As a student, he presided the first Federación de Estudantes Universitarios, the Ecuadorian University Students Association. Cueva was appointed on 1917, still being a college stundent, as a teacher at the elementary school "Luis Cordero". This was very important for him, then his father had died and he had to support his younger brothers. His first political function was as Councillor of Cuenca, an office he would had many times in the future. 1924 he was elected as a Congressman for the Azuay Province. 1925 we was elected for a second period as a Councillor of Cuenca and on the same year we was appointed school principal of his old high school. Three years later he changed as a Director to the Board of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22400287 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Jorge Icaza, Galo Plaza Lasso, Leopoldo Benites, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Demetrio Aguilera Malta, José Ayala Lasso, Benjamín Carrión, Antonio Pons. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora (1897-1979) was an Ecuadorian writer and cultural promoter. He was born into an aristocratic family in Loja. He was a lawyer by training, and occupied various positions in the public arena, including Minister of Education, legislator, diplomat in several countries of Europe and America Carrión was also a Professor at the Central University, and a journalist. In this later capacity He founded the newspaper El Sol with Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco. Due to his political views, he was close to the socialist and later communist realms of Ecuadorian society. In 1944, he founded the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (House of Ecuadorian Culture) and became its first President. He was a tireless crusader for the House, and despite great odds, was able to inaugurate its first and main building in May 1947. The building stands now as an icon of the city of Quito. From the beginning he emphasized the importance of the House's Museums, Library and Press. He published the influential literary magazine Letras del Ecuador under the direction of among others, his nephew Alejandro Carrión. He also published a number of key Ecuadorian authors. The House of the Culture has, in its more than 20 years of work, supported a multitude of writers and painters both inside and outside the country. It has also allowed for Ecuadorian culture to be known in the international field. Though his legacy as a writer can be considered controversial in importance, he stands as Ecuador's foremost promoter of culture. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ecuadorian Poets, Alejandro Carrión, Karina Galvez, Jorge Carrera Andrade, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Fanny Carrión de Fierro, Iván Carvajal, María Fernanda Espinosa, César Dávila Andrade, the Poets of Elan, Ignacio Lasso, Jose María Egas, La Sangre Sobre La Tierra, La Noche Oscura, Ileana Espinel, El Tiempo Que Pasa. Excerpt: Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 4 January 1992) was born in Loja, Ecuador. A poet, novelist and enthusiastic journalist, he published two important novels, La manzana dañada and La espina, many books of short stories, and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión Mora. Alejandro Carrión wrote articles and political commentary in the following periodicals and newspapers: A selection of Alejandro Carrión's poetry was recorded in Quito for the Library of Congress in Washington; a copy of that recording is housed at Harvard Universitys "House of the Poetry". Alejandro told of his emotional reaction to hearing his own words when visiting in the company of the poet Archibald McLeish: "small satisfactions that illuminate the life of a poet." ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1322182 ... Read more

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El Ecuador visto por los cronistas de indias, los corsarios y los viajeros europeos. ... Read more

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Title: Biography for the use of birds.(poem)
Author: Jorge Carrera Andrade
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: v172Issue: n2Page: p76(2)

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