City of Memory and Other Poems
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
City of Memory and Other Poems
By (Author) Jose Emilio Pacheco
Translated by Cynthia Steele
City Lights Books
City Lights Books
2nd January 2001
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
811
Physical Properties
Paperback
200
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 15mm
240g
Description
Born in 1939, Jose Emilio Pacheco's life and work centres around Mexico City, to which he acts as witness, chronicler and lover. He once doubted his appeal to anyone living outside Mexico City, but none of us live far from the polluted, overpopulated metropolis he describes. This text combines two of his most recent collections in a bilingual format, painting a vivid picture of the noble beauty and uncontrollable tragedy that is Mexico City - and the world - today.
Author Bio
Jose Emilio Pacheco is the winner of the Jose Asuncion Silva Award for the best book of poetry to appear in Spanish from 1990 to 1995. Novelist, poet, essayist, and translator, he lives in Mexico City.
Cynthia Steele is the author of Politics, Gender and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988, Beyond the Pyramid and the translator of Underground River and Other Stories by Ines Arredondo.
David Lauer is a poet and translator who lives in Chihuahua, Mexico.
