{"product_id":"of-such-a-nature-indole-paperback-softback-9780817359058","title":"Of Such a Nature\/Índole (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817359058","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOf Such a Nature\/Índole\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJosé Kozer (Author), Peter Boyle (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817359058\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 1 black \u0026amp; white figure\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.355 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eÍndole\u003c\/i\u003e hangs together as a collection; each poem is an exploration composed of careful deliberate details. While Kozer’s style and poetic structure are different, his poems in \u003ci\u003eÍndole \u003c\/i\u003eare reminiscent of Neruda’s \u003ci\u003eOdas elementales\u003c\/i\u003e for their revelation of the miraculous and the epiphanic to be found in the every day.\"\" - Emily A. Maguire, author of \u003ci\u003eRacial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn English translation from one of Latin America’s most distinguished poets.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eJosé Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to ever win the Pablo Neruda Prize given by the Neruda Foundation in Chile. He is the author of close to ninety books, including \u003ci\u003eEste judío de números y letras, Bajo este cien, La garza sin sombras, Carece de causa\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eY del esparto la invariabilidad\u003c\/i\u003e. Kozer is also noteworthy as a key poet of the Cuban diaspora, having left Cuba in 1960 and residing ever since in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Such a Nature\/Índole\u003c\/i\u003e is a bilingual edition translated into English by Peter Boyle. In addition, Boyle provides an extensive introduction placing Kozer’s work in a critical context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Spanish word “índole” can be translated as: “a type,” “a sort,” or “that sort of thing.” The title, \u003ci\u003eÍndole\u003c\/i\u003e, therefore suggests that the poems gathered in this collection, are all instances of specific types of situations, things, or experiences. Kozer has gathered a collection of poems about everyday life—cleaning one’s dentures, a woman leaning over a bowl of oatmeal, a salamander glimpsed while eating breakfast—but always with death not far away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Such a Nature\/Índole \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable collection of poems published in Cuba in 2012, covering such materials as Kozer’s Jewish heritage, his Cuban childhood and ongoing connection to the Island, Buddhist and East Asian traditions of spiritual practice, his everyday life in Florida with Guadalupe, ageing, illness, and the shadow of death. Irony and humor are there as well, and to read these poems is to be in the presence of the full seriousness of poetry and its playfulness, its ability to undercut all pretensions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574395957528,"sku":"9780817359058","price":14.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/of-such-a-nature-indole-paperback-softback-9780817359058","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}