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Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in the new century.. In these poems, Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. Throughout, we find tributes to artists like Goya and Heraclitus, denunciations of drug traffickers and political figureheads, and unforgettable imagined landscapes. As Aridjis himself writes: "a poem is like a door / we've never passed through . . ." And now past eighty, Aridjis reflects on the past and ponders the future. "Surrounded by light and the warbling of birds," he writes, "I live in a state of poetry, because for me, being and making poetry are the same."
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Aridjis, Homero
- ISBN: 9780811231732
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 176
- Publication Year: 2023
Language:
English