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    The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán
    The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán
    The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán
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    The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán

    By Ana Enriqueta Terán and Marcel Smith

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    Ana Enriqueta Terán is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted impression of a uniquely intense imagination.


    This bilingual edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of corresponding force. It invites readers to enter Terán's world--a world at once strongly Venezuelan and universally human, imbued with great beauty, sardonic humor, pitiless compassion, lucid wisdom, and joyful affirmation.


    Selected from several volumes of Terán's work, these poems span half a century of composition and show an extraordinary range in both form and substance. Some are written in closed forms, some in free verse. Some are carefully evocative representations of the landscapes and cityscapes that have nourished the poet's intelligence and imagination. Others are dramatic character studies. All are infused with Terán's rare sensibility and realized through language that manages to be at once graceful, urgent, and explosive. This volume is a treasure for all lovers of poetry.




    Deal Struck with Happiness
    ?


    How much sweetness to make right the night
    and this clutch of anemones
    near thin smooth consoling stones,
    stones havens of southern weather.
    Of a woman who watches Cepheids quaver
    among lightbursting mangroves.
    Of a woman who offers cats-eyes and clematis
    only, Islands, for the sake of setting right
    her deal struck with happiness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateFeb 9, 2009
    ISBN9781400825202
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      The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out - Ana Enriqueta Terán

      T H E

      P O E T E S S

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      B O W S

      O U T

      The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

      Editorial Advisor: Richard Howard

      FOR OTHER TITLES IN THE LOCKERT LIBRARY SEE PAGE 121

      T H E

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      C O U N T S

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      O U T

      SELECTED POEMS BY

      ANA ENRIQUETA TERÁN

      A BILINGUAL EDITION

      Translated by Marcel Smith

      PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS · PRINCETON AND OXFORD

      Copyright © 2003 by Ana Enriqueta Terán

      Translations of poems and preface copyright © 2003 by Princeton University Press

      Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton,

      New Jersey 08540

      In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock,

      Oxfordshire OX20 1SY

      All Rights Reserved

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Terán, Ana Enriqueta.

      The poetess counts to 100 and bows out : selected poems : a bilingual edition / by Ana Enriqueta Terán ; English versions by Marcel Smith.

      p. cm. - (The Lockert library of poetry in translation)

      eISBN: 978-1-40082-520-2

      1. Terán, Ana Enriqueta-Translations into English. I. Smith, Marcel.

      II. Title. III. Series.

      PQ8549.T4 A27 2002

      861;.64-dc21

      2002016923

      Sonnets numbered, 3, 5, 7, 18, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31, 35, 36, and 39 in the section entitled

      Sonetos de todos mis tiempos and the following poems appeared in Spanish in Casa de hablas, Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamerica, 1991: A un caballo blanco;

      Música con pie de salmo; Saludable visión de este lado oscuro; Los sueños;

      Recados al hermano mayor; Las águilas; Piedra de habla; Compromiso con la alegría; Piedrecillas de adivinación; El nombre; La poetisa cuenta hasta cien y se retira; Tercer intento de casa materna."

      British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available

      This book has been composed in Dante Typeface

      Printed on acid-free paper. ‡

      www.pupress.princeton.edu

      Printed in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation is supported by a bequest from Charles Lacy Lockert (1888-1974)

      THESE TRANSLATIONS

      ARE DEDICATED TO MY WIFE

      Elizabeth

      WITHOUT WHOM NOT

      Indice

      Translator's Preface

      Acknowledgments

      A Note about Sources

      DE Casa de hablas

      A un caballo blanco

      El nombre

      Piedra de habla

      Compromiso con la alegría

      Las águilas

      Saludable visión de este lado oscuro

      Los sueños

      Tercer intento de casa materna

      Recados al hermano mayor

      Música con pie de salmo

      Piedrecillas de adivinación

      La poetisa cuenta hasta cien y se retira

      DE Sonetos de todos mis tiempos

      Tanto de pan, tanto de aceite

      Los extraños llamaron a la puerta

      Reconoció la noche en el espejo

      Hoja única, erguida muy despacio

      Contents

      Translator's Preface

      Acknowledgments

      A Note about Sources

      FROM House Made of Utterance

      To a White Horse

      The Name

      Wordstone

      Deal Struck with Happiness

      The Eagle

      Fit Vision of This Dark Side

      Dreams

      Third Try at the Mother House

      Messages for the Older Brother

      Music with Psalm Foot

      Pebbles for Scrying

      The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out

      FROM Sonnets out of All My Seasons

      So much bread, so much oil

      The strangers rattled at the door

      She took in night in the pier glass

      One only leaf, adagioed up

      Los moradores lanzan sus escritos

      En tus catorce versos surgen finas

      Una chenchena en el Suapure río

      Es un charco de sombra y en la cara

      Sabidurías de torzal incierto

      Música para labios, torbellino

      Las respuestas oscilan en un vano

      Negro, amarillo, blanco como fino

      DE Albatros

      Albatros

      Oficio áspero

      Ascensos y aún distancias

      Aves nunca vistas

      Todavía no reposo

      Voluntad de grito rasgado

      DE Autobiografía en tercetos

      Río Momboy

      El Motatán

      Otros ríos

      Invocación a la madre

      They who live there hurl their writings

      Subtle in your fourteen lines surge

      In the Suapure River

      A puddle of shade, on its face

      Wisdoms of uncertain silk cords

      Music for lips, whirlwind the heart

      The replies waver in a vain

      Black, yellow, white as a subtle

      FROM Albatross

      Albatross

      Splintery Responsibility

      Ascents and Yet Distances

      Never Seen Fowl

      Not Resting

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