{"id":1210,"date":"2024-02-28T00:55:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/?page_id=1210"},"modified":"2024-05-12T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T02:43:52","slug":"migrations_book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/books\/migrations_book\/","title":{"rendered":"migrations_book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cIn its stunning poetic breadth, [Migrations<\/i>] reminds me of Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz’s Primero sue\u00f1o <\/i>(First Dream) an epistemological quest to unravel, during one night, all the secrets of the universe. […] As in Borges’s all-encompassing Aleph, my impression is that all of Jewish Latin American poetry is contained in Migrations<\/i>, which represents its crowning achievement.<\/b>\u201d \u2013 Ilan Stavans<\/p>

\u201cGloria Gervitz\u2019s Migrations<\/em>, co-written by death, co-written by eros, is one of the great poems of the twenty-first century. Mark Schafer, her extraordinary English-language translator, has managed to keep hold of this poem through all its bucking, its multiplying, its relentless champing at the bit. Gervitz is a wonder, true, but so is Schafer.\u201d \u2014Forrest Gander<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cMigrations<\/em> presents the unmistakable, majestic voice of Gloria Gervitz, one of the most powerful and original voices of contemporary Jewish Latin American literature, in all its fullness, and Mark Schafer\u2019s translation does it justice.\u201d – Marjorie Agos\u00edn<\/p>

\u201cWith this book-length poem, here published along with Mark Schafer\u2019s splendid English translation, Gloria Gervitz joins the ranks of Mexico’s greatest poets. \u2026 When a change of poetic style calls for it, [Schafer] can turn on a dime. In this translation, he has solved a bewildering number of diffi\u00adcult problems. And yet, his text reads as if the poem were written in English in the first place.\u201d – Steven A Sadow<\/p>

\u201cMigraciones<\/em> is an extraordinary and deeply moving poem.\u00a0 Gloria Gervitz looks out all the world\u2019s windows and Mark Schafer throws them open to gather in the most soaring and luminous of words.\u201d – Elena Poniatowska<\/p>

\u201cIt is difficult to think of a poetic project like that of Gervitz. Ezra Pound\u2019s Cantos<\/em> or Charles Olson\u2019s The Maximus Poems<\/em> come to mind, but perhaps no other modern author has consistently devoted the totality of their work to one single volume, patiently rewritten throughout the years, losing and gaining verses, and constantly mutating\u2026.The search for a language able to slide through different meanings in the same line [is] at the center of Gervitz\u2019s poetic project. . . Readers of Migrations<\/em> find the trace of a life devoted to writing and rewriting\u2014it is a mutating work, written with an ink that aspires to the flowing and dissolvent nature of running water.\u201d – Mauro G. Lazarovich<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buy now! Migrations: Poem, 1976\u20132020 Gloria Gervitz (Mexico) New York Review Books 2021 From reviews of Migrations: Poem, 1976\u20132020 \u201cIn its stunning poetic breadth, [Migrations] reminds me of Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz’s Primero sue\u00f1o (First Dream) an epistemological quest to unravel, during one night, all the secrets of the universe. […] As in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":445,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1210\/revisions\/2308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}