Commentaries and Citations (English and Spanish Edition)

Love-in-absence, past-in-present, and clarity-in-pain are the major themes of Commentaries and Citations. In these poems, dedicated to his motherland, Argentine poet-in-exile Juan Gelman composes nostalgia and desire by invoking and responding to texts that range from the Bible to the mystics and on to tango. In his unique fashion, he trespasses the limits of language and authorship to produce an unusual love poetry of cascading rhythms and stunning imagery. These poems are for the first time rendered in their entirety in this Spanish/English edition.