Visible Poets

Pedro Serrano, Anna Crowe

• Publisher: Arc Publications
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781908376817
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Peatlands is the first bilingual single collection of Mexican poet Pedro Serrano's work to be published in the UK. Introduced by WN Herbert, the poems are as linguistically thrilling as they are wide-ranging: with subjects as diverse as snakes and swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and love.

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Pedro Serrano is the author of six poetry collections published between 1986 and 2009. He also co-edited the 2000 anthology The Lamb Generation, which brought together translations of 30 contemporary British poets. His poems have appeared in the likes of MPT, The Rialto and Verse, and in 2007 he was awarded a Guggenheim Poetry Fellowship. He lives in Mexico City. Anna Crowe 's other translations include Joan Margarit's collections Tugs in the Fog (2006; ISBN 9781852247515) and Strangely Happy (2011; ISBN 9781852248932), both published by Bloodaxe, and the Arc anthology Six Catalan Poets (2013; ISBN 9781906570606). She lives in St Andrews.

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Original poems copyright © Pedro Serrano 2014

Translation copyright © Anna Crowe 2014

Introduction copyright © W. N. Herbert 2014

Copyright in the present edition © Arc Publications 2014

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Design by Tony Ward

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The publishers are grateful to the editors of the following magazines in which these translated poems have appeared: ‘Schoolchildren on Via Augusta’ and ‘Port’, The Rialto (Spring 2009); ‘Rodin’s Garden’, ‘Swallows’ and ‘The Cove at Aiguafreda’, Boulevard Magenta (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2009, issue 4); ‘Swallows’ Modern Poetry in Translation (Third series, no. 10); ‘Feet’, ‘Snake’, ‘Inside the Chapel’, ‘Lustral’, ‘Swallows’ and ‘Regent’s Canal’, Mexican Poetry Today, 30 Voices ed. Brandel France de Bravo (2010).

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Table of contents

• Series Editor’s Note
• Translator’s Preface
• Introduction
• Dibujo de las cosas
• Sketch of Things
• El agua que bebemos
• The Water that we Drink
• La lluvia seca
• Dry Rain
• Reconstrucción
• Rebuilding
• Desecación
• Desiccation
• El sol en ascuas
• The Sun on Live Coals
• La fuerza
• Strength
• La Sirena
• The Mermaid
• La vendedora
• Saleswoman
• La condena
• The Sentence
• Las hojas, segunda estancia
• Leaves, Second Dwelling
• Tres canciones lunáticas
• Three Lunatic Songs
• Confianza del viento
• The Wind’s Trust
• “No hay posesión…”
• “There is no ownership…”
• “Todo se apelotona…”
• “Everything coagulates…”
• “El dolor de los dientes…”
• “Toothache…”
• “Cae el saco oscuro de avispas…”
• “Dark with wasps…”
• “Una brújula azul…”
• “A blue compass-needle…”
• “Lo que tengo es la pluma…”
• “What I have is the pen…”
• “Este es el punto ciego del agua…”
• “This is water’s blind spot…”
• “Como un caracol sordo…”
• “Like a deaf snail…”
• “Contra sí mismo el cuerpo se revuelve…”
• “The body turns round upon itself…”
• Tuscania
• Tuscania
• Puerto
• Port
• Tormenta en Tollington Way
• Storm on Tollington Way
• Colebrook Row
• Colebrook Row
• Regent’s Canal
• Regent’s Canal
• Revólver
• Revolver
• Serpiente
• Snake
• El escriba
• The Scribe
• El arte de fecar
• The Liminating Art
• Rosario
• Rosary
• Lustral
• Lustral
• Desplazamiento de la copa
• The Glass Displaced
• Los pies
• Feet
• Acotamiento
• Drawing the Boundary
• Golondrinas
• Swallows
• Jardín de Rodín
• Rodin’s Garden
• Escolares en Vía Augusta
• Schoolchildren on Vía Augusta
• Cala de Aiguafreda
• The Cove at Aiguafreda
• En capilla
• Inside the Chapel
• Biographical Notes