Sergio Raimondi, Selected Poems (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics) - Softcover

Ben Bollig; Mark Leech

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1836245483 ISBN 13: 9781836245483

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Sergio Raimondi’s work engages in the most complex issues of his time, including globalisation, colonialism, industrialisation and environmental degradation. Yet all his concerns are rigorously analysed through the medium of the poet’s art, steeped in literary tradition and craft. He is widely considered Argentina’s most important and influential contemporary poet, with an international reputation. Many of Raimondi’s poems address what might seem unlikely subjects for poetry: industrial practices, global trade, or labour legislation. Yet among the allusions, the immense research, the unsparing gaze, and the expert skill of the language there’s also room for desert-dry humour, touches of self-deprecation and immense empathy for individuals caught up in seemingly implacable historical processes. This volume includes a generous selection of his poems from Poesía civil (Civil Poetry) and Lexikón (Lexikon) in bilingual Spanish-English facing-pages format. A substantial introduction by the translators places Raimondi’s work in its literary and wider cultural context, and reflects on the challenges faced when bringing his unique poetry into English.

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About the Authors

Benjamin Bollig is a Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of Oxford.

Mark Leech is a freelance editor and writer based in Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1836245483
• ISBN 13: 9781836245483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224