{"product_id":"9780872863095","title":"Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes - in my way of thinking—a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more direct way, it is a prayer.\"—Alvaro Mutis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alberto Blanco's deep poetry inhabits both the world and the universe of imagination; these poems shed their own light and fly on their own wings.\"—Michael McClure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Mexico City in 1951, \u003cb\u003eAlberto Blanco\u003c\/b\u003e is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist, translator, and storyteller, his poetry explores the connections on frontiers between verbal, visual, and aural experience. He is both an innovator and a classicist, a materialist and a mystic, a visionary and a chronicler of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere his poems converse with their English translations, to create “a singular book…not simply a bilingual edition, but one unified voice, a poetry that speaks of a world far beyond languages and borders.” (from the introduction by José Emilio Pacheco).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027603767536,"sku":"9780872863095","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872863095_p0.jpg?v=1763850644","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872863095","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}