{"product_id":"un-libro-levemente-odioso-isbn-9781644215364","title":"Un libro levemente odioso","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major collection from the revolutionary Salvadoran poet and intellectual in a new bilingual edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Profound yet playful, the poet Roque preferred to laugh at himself than take life too seriously, and so saved himself from grandiloquence, solemnity, and other ailments so gravely afflicting Latin American political poetry.” \u003cb\u003e—Eduardo Galeano, \u003ci\u003eRoque\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most important posthumous collection of the “patron saint of the Latin American left” (Ben Ehrenreich, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) is a fierce satire. Only the holy trinity of Lenin-Fidel Castro-Che Guevara escapes his sharp-edged mockery. These are nasty poems, but never unjustly so. He denounces the cruel hypocrisy of his enemies (the Salvadoran dictatorship, US imperialism, the international bourgeoisie) and his comrades, which ultimately lands him on the enemy side of civil violence. The mirror he holds up to revolutionaries and poets who fail to live up to their words turns to reveal an endearingly flawed and tragicomic figure. Only his cynicism is a pretense, armor for his idealism. The autobiographical poems in this collection mythologize the author’s life, turning him into the unwilling martyr of a mystical revolution that continues to enlist those naïve enough to believe poetry can be political.\u003cb\u003eROQUE DALTON \u003c\/b\u003e(1935–1975) was an enormously influential figure in the history of Latin America as a poet, essayist, intellectual, and revolutionary. As a poet who brilliantly fused politics and art, his example permanently changed the direction of Central American poetry. The author of eighteen volumes of poetry and prose, one of which (\u003ci\u003eTaberna y otros lugares\u003c\/i\u003e) received a Casa de las Américas prize in 1967, his work combines fierce satirical irony with a humane and exuberant tenderness. Dalton was murdered by his ERP comrades on May 10, 1975, four days before turning forty. His legacy extends beyond his achievements as a poet to his political writings and political work in his native El Salvador.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATASHA WIMMER \u003c\/b\u003eis the award-winning translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e. Her recent translations include \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVoyager\u003c\/i\u003e by Nona Fernández, and \u003ci\u003eYou Dreamed of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e by Álvaro Enrigue. A graduate of Harvard University in Romance Languages, she has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, The New York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches at Princeton and Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELENA PONIATOWSKA \u003c\/b\u003e(born in 1933 in Paris) is a Mexican journalist, novelist, and essayist known for writing about the marginalized and the powerless. One of Mexico’s most influential literary figures, she blends reportage and fiction in works such as \u003ci\u003eLa noche de Tlatelolco (Massacre in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eHasta no verte, Jesús mío (Here’s to You, Jesúsa!)\u003c\/i\u003e, and was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 2013.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA \u003c\/b\u003eis a Honduran novelist, journalist, and essayist. The author of numerous acclaimed novels, he has also written extensively on Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, most recently in \u003ci\u003eRoque Dalton: Correspondencia clandestina y otros ensayos\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin Random House, 2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOSÉ LUIS POSADA \u003c\/b\u003e(1929–2002) was a Spanish-born artist who died in exile in Cuba.A Bilingual Edition","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232898461925,"sku":"NP9781644215364","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644215364.jpg?v=1773167943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/un-libro-levemente-odioso-isbn-9781644215364","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}