Poetry
Pól-la d'anánta katánta paránta
Not translated into English
José Coronel Urtecho · 1970
Synopsis
The only book of poems the author allowed to be gathered, under a Greek title borrowed from Homer, meaning “through many ascents, descents and detours”. The subtitle, “imitations and translations”, states the collection's approach: verses scattered over decades in reviews and newspapers, since the poet's youth in Granada, are mingled in it, as if they belonged to a single body of work, with the foreign poems the author translated or imitated.
Context
The collection appeared in 1970, assembled by the poet Ernesto Gutiérrez: its author, little inclined to make books, had until then left his poems scattered. It was reissued in 1989 and then in 1993; the last edition, published in Managua, opens with a conversation with the poet Luis Rocha and lengthens the title by two Greek words, again taken from Homer, which the author translated as “they arrived at last”.
Who it is for
A thick collection in Spanish, not translated into French, which can be read in any order. The imitations are better appreciated if one knows a little about the poets imitated.
Prizes and reception
The only volume of poems by its author, it is from this book that critics read his poetics, which was decisive for the poetry of his country.
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