"Song Up Out of Spain"
Prompted by the occasion of a gala poetry reading at
the University of Salamanca, Spain, in July 2019, this anthology is the first
of its kind to comprise Anglophone and Spanish speaking poets breathing life
into the multifarious poetic legacy of the poet Ezra Pound. Although Pound’s
influence on diverse Anglo-American poets is well-known, this collection
further reveals his lesser known, yet equally vital impact on the Spanish
speaking world, which has been immense. A bilingual anthology, it includes 29
poets, 13 of whom write in Spanish and 16 of whom are Anglophone. In recent
decades, the Ezra Pound International Conferences taking place worldwide have
featured poetry readings in what has become by a well-known tradition. In
Salamanca, poets of older and younger generations from five continents paid
tribute to Pound, with selections from their work now available in this volume.
The anthology includes poems by the Spanish Novisimos poets (“The Newest
Ones”), considered in Spain Pound’s direct poetic heirs, such as Antonio
Colinas, Jaime Siles, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, and José María Álvarez, but also included
here are poems by Jorge Guillén from the Generation of ’27, as well as Spanish
American poets such as Ernesto Cardenal, Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro, Julián Herbert,
and Jeannette Lozano Clariond; also represented are poets of a younger
generation: Jordi Doce, Juan Antonio González-Iglesias, Mª
Ángeles Pérez
López, and Natalia Carbajosa.
At the reading in Salamanca, the Anglophone poets, including
many devoted Poundians among them, also offered a robust contribution. Still,
in concert with their Spanish-speaking counterparts, these poets have also
recreated the Spanish world in unusual ways, each reflecting a different,
illuminating dimension of Pound’s sensibility. Celebrated Anglophone poets present
here include David Cappella, John Gery, Patrizia de Rachewiltz, Tony Lopez, Ron
Smith, Clive Wilmer, Paul Scott Derrick, Jeff Grieneisen and Silvia Falsaperla,
together with distinguished scholars such as David Moody, Alec Marsh, and John
Beall, as well as promising voices of a new generation: Rhett Forman, Justin Kishbaugh, Chengru He,
and Sean Mark.
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Esta antología, la primera que reúne a poetas anglófonos
e hispanohablantes, nació a raíz de un recital de poesía celebrado en la
Universidad de Salamanca en julio de 2019, con el propósito de infundir nueva
vida al valioso legado poético del poeta Ezra Pound. Si bien su influencia en
la tradición angloamericana es indiscutible, esta antología revela la inmensa
huella, menos conocida, aunque igualmente vital de Pound en los poetas del
mundo hispano.
Se trata por tanto de una colección bilingüe que incluye
29 poetas, de los cuales 13 escriben en español y 16 en inglés. En las últimas
décadas, los congresos internacionales dedicados a la obra de Ezra Pound,
celebrados por todo el mundo, han venido organizando recitales poéticos que ya
se han convertido en tradición. En Salamanca, poetas de distintas generaciones
y de cinco continentes rindieron homenaje a Pound con una selección de sus propias
obras, recogida en este volumen. Así, se incluyen poemas de la generació
