Gonzales Odi Gonzales

Birds on the Kiswar Tree (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE by Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales presents poems that sing in the voices of native birds and speak through the devout, but subversive, Quechua artists of Peru's colonial era. Their religious art provides the imagery for these astounding poems. In the Eden painted by one anonymous artist, Andean kiswar trees grow, native nukchu flowers bloom, llamas graze, and parrots perch in the trees, and in out-of-the-way nooks of Andean churches, rebel angels hide, armed with harquebuses. Canvas by canvas, poem by poem, Gonzales gives us a poetry collection as a living and talking museum in which the Quechua artists of Peru's past demonstrate both their sincere Christian faith and their opposition to the Spanish destruction of the Inca empire. Originally published in Peru in 2005 as LA ESCUELA DE CUSCO (THE SCHOOL OF CUSCO), BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE stands as an elegant and richly imagined tribute to these indigenous and mestizo artists. By extension, it shows how artists may put forth their views when prevailing circumstances make outward protest a perilous option.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 2Leaf Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781940939254
• Artikelnr.: 58939833

Autorenporträt

Odi Gonzales is an award-winning Peruvian poet who writes in both Quechua and Spanish. He earned his Literature degree from Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, an MA in Latin American literature from the University of Maryland, and a PhD from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Gonzales has worked with English-speaking writers and scholars to translate a substantial amount of material related to the Peruvian oral tradition, encompassing myths, legends, and rituals. He has also participated in various conferences focused on indigenous languages and has received multiple accolades. Since 2000, he has split his time between Peru and the United States, where he currently teaches Quechua language and culture as well as pre-Hispanic literature of the Andean region at New York University. He has published seven poetry collections, and "Birds on the Kiswar Tree" is a bilingual edition of his work "La Escuela de Cusco" (The School of Cusco), featuring an English translation by Lynn Levin, marking his first collection in English.