{"product_id":"dawn-of-the-senses-9780872863095","title":"Dawn of the Senses","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist, translator, and storyteller, his poetry explores the connections on frontiers between verbal, visual, and aural experience. He is both an innovator and a classicist, a materialist and a mystic, a visionary and a chronicler of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere his poems converse with their English translations, to create \"a singular book…not simply a bilingual edition, but one unified voice, a poetry that speaks of a world far beyond languages and borders,\" (from the introduction by Jose Emilio Pacheco).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes—in my way of thinking—a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more direct way, it is a prayer.\" —Alvaro Mutis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alberto Blanco's deep poetry inhabits both the world and the universe of imagination; these poems shed their own light and fly on their own wings.\" —Michael McClure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuvenal Acosta is an author who has published fiction, journalism, and poetry. He is now a teacher at the California College of the Arts. His books include\u003cem\u003e The Tattooed Hunter\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Violence of Velvet.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosé Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014) was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He has been regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the 20th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alberto Blanco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956512657526,"sku":"9780872863095","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c694b56f-230f-4734-b470-9deadeecaa82.jpg?v=1767723712","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/dawn-of-the-senses-9780872863095","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}