The Hunts, by Amelia Biagioni

Amelia Biagioni

Amelia Biagioni , was born in Gálvez, Argentina. She taught Spanish and Spanish literature in her native town and, after 1955, in Buenos Aires. She began publishing poetry under a pseudonym in 1944, and resolved to use her own name only after 1950. Her pieces appeared in newspapers and reviews such...

, is a book of poems written originally in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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Description

A bilingual edition of an astonishing poetic cycle that ranges across time and space to recreate the eternal hunt: the unstoppable, restless process of the universe chasing, tormenting and consuming itself.

Summary

A bilingual edition of Las Cacerías, an enraptured poetic cycle that takes the reader through the delirious swirl of the eternal hunt on Earth and in heaven, in the past, present and future. Sections of the cycle relate to the ancient sport of man pursuing beast, beast pursuing beast, man pursuing man, and the poet's quest to capture life and identity within words. The final section presents the author as a woman pursued as a heretic, for having "spied on God."

Editions

• Translated from Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  , and with an Introduction by Renata Treitel. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books
  Xenos Books
  Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.- Poetry :...
  
  . ISBN 1-879378-44-2 (paper), 135 p.