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A collection of dark, funny Iberian poems about drinking, sex and death. Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the speaker moves quixotically across the map and between romances. His instinct for rhythm gives the reader a firm sense of place and tone. Universal in their concerns, taking in love and the end of love, life and the end of life, the poems are also resolutely Spanish in how they speak - bluntly, humorously - always alert for the fantastic. This is the first translation of Vilas's two major collections Heaven (El cielo, 2000) and Heat (Calor, 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into free-wheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy. The translator, James Womack, has won prizes for his versions of Vilas and of the Russian poet Mayakovsky.
A collection of dark, funny Iberian poems about drinking, sex and death. Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the speaker moves quixotically across the map and betw...
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Manuel Vilas is a Spanish writer. He is the author of several books, including thirteen collections of poetry, seven books of essays, and six novels. James Womack currently lives in Madrid, where he works as a freelance translator from Russian and Spanish and is co-editor of the publishing house Nevsky Prospects. Manuel Vilas is a Spanish writer. He is the author of several books, including thirteen collections of poetry, seven books of essays, and six novels. His most recent novel, Ordesa, was a bestseller in Spain and is forthcoming in a number of languages, including French, German and English. He has won many prizes for his work, including the Premio de las Letras Aragonesas 2015. He currently divides his time between Spain and the United States, where he teaches at the University of Iowa. Manuel Vilas is a Spanish writer. He is the author of several books, including thirteen collections of poetry, seven books of essays, and six novels. James Womack currently lives in Madrid, where he works as a freelance translator from Russian and Spanish and is co-editor of the publishing house Nevsky Prospects. James Womack was born in Cambridge in 1979. He studied Russian, English and translation at university, and received his doctorate, on W.H. Auden's translations, in 2006. He currently lives in Madrid, where he works as a freelance translator from Russian and Spanish and is co-editor of the publishing house Nevsky Prospects, which produces Spanish translations of Russian literature and which has recently, as Nevsky Books, started to publish Spanish and Russian books in English. His debut collection Misprint was published in 2012, and his collection On Trust is forthcoming in November 2017, both from Carcanet.
Manuel Vilas is a Spanish writer. He is the author of several books, including thirteen collections of poetry, seven books of essays, and six novels. James Womack currently lives in Madrid, where he works as a freelance translator from Russian and Spanish and is co-editor of the publishing house ...
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