John of the Cross
Summary: "The 16th-century friar known as St. John is a preeminent Spanish literary figure as well as one of the world's great mystical poets. This new edition of his works of spiritual guidance modernizes the original text while retaining its rhetorical grandeur. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum." -- Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 JOHGander, Forrest
Summary: "Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2018