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Eduardo Chirinos<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n

Translated by\u00a0G. J. Racz<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

A Brief History of Music &
\n<\/em>Fourteen Forms of Melancholy<\/em><\/h3>\n

ISBN 978-1-944884-89-5
\n120 pages
\nNovember 1, 2020<\/p>\n

Bilingual<\/em><\/p>\n

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A Brief History of Music<\/i> is the first complete English-language translation of the late Peruvian writer Eduardo Chirinos<\/a>\u2019s Breve historia de la m\u00fasica<\/i>, which was awarded the inaugural Premio Case de Am\u00e9rica de Poes\u00eda Americana<\/i> prize in 2011.\u00a0 The poems in this singular, often poignant collection reflect Chirinos\u2019s fascination with music, one of the recurrent topics of his extensive poetic oeuvre alongside childhood, animals, film, the vagaries of memory, painting, and even the poetic tradition itself.\u00a0 Each of the twenty-three carefully crafted pieces here provides an imaginative scenario accompanying a chosen musical piece, from an anonymous Berb\u00e9rie song to twentieth-century atonal works, featuring favorite compositions by such classical greats as Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Sibelius, Debussy, Gershwin, and Stravinsky, among others.\u00a0 This ninth volume of Chirinos\u2019s verse available in English, all translated by G. J. Racz, also includes the delightfully playful, meditative “Fourteen Forms of Melancholy,” whose wistful, though ludic tone covers many of the themes found throughout Chirinos\u2019s unique, affecting work.\u00a0 This is the second collaboration between Chirinos and Racz to be published by Di\u00e1logos.\u00a0 While the Wolf Is Around<\/i><\/a> appeared from this press in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Once again, G.J. Racz gracefully walks the cords that bridge language, music and poetry to offer the reader a magnificent bilingual edition: Breve historia de la m\u00fasica & Catorce formas de melancol\u00eda <\/em>\/ A Brief History of Music & Fourteen Forms of Melancholy <\/em>by the late Eduardo Chirinos.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe poem\u00b4s music, though, will always be manifested in words, which is why it\u00b4s so hard to translate it into other languages.\u00a0 Its images, rhythms, and silences belong to its own tongue, and thus to a community as well as a history that gives it meaning.\u201d (Eduardo Chirinos)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This book will serve as an eternal memorial, song and topographic map of both Chirinos\u00b4s craft and inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u2014Zachary Payne<\/strong>, Windward Community College, editor of Kloaka: antolog\u00eda po\u00e9tica<\/em> and Hora Zero: \u00f3peras primas<\/em><\/p>\n

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Once again Racz\u2019s poetic sensibility impresses. Every syllabic morsel in this translation is lovingly treated, each word is captured elegance, each line is shaped with clarity and precision, and all are placed with expertise. The book breathes in English. Not only do the verses ring and sound, sing and play, the spaces and silences, beautifully mirroring the original poems in Spanish, swell, echo, and invite the music.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claudia Routon<\/strong><\/a>, University of North Dakota, translator of Sky Chess<\/em><\/a> by Antonio Agudelo<\/p>\n

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More than a catalogue of musical moments, this book traces a range of sensations, offering a series of verbal accompaniments that exist in parallel with the works to which they pay homage. Chirinos translates music into poetry not to imitate notes, but to peer into the cracks between them, conjuring quiet, private scenes that might evoke the landscape of Sibelius\u2019s Finland or the estrangement of a medieval Sephardic song. G. J. Racz\u2019s renderings are delicate but supple, and perfectly ventriloquize Chirinos’s elegant, sometimes whimsical voice.\u200b<\/p>\n

\u2014Charlotte Whittle<\/strong>, editor, Cardboard House Press, and translator of People in the Room<\/em> by Norah Lange<\/p>\n

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A Brief History of Music and \u201cFourteen Forms of Melancholy\u201d<\/em> is a remarkable piece played deftly by four hands: \u00a0Chirinos does not cite these melodies so much as channel them, and Racz renders his taut riffs without missing a beat. Their focus may be on the ear, but these are poems that reverberate throughout the body.<\/p>\n

\u2014Heather Cleary<\/strong>, Sarah Lawrence College, translator of Poems to Read on a Streetcar <\/em>by<\/em> Oliverio Girondo<\/p>\n

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With A Brief History of Music<\/em>, Eduardo Chirinos fully enters the musical universe through true \u201cilluminations\u201d (in the Rimbaudian sense of the word). \u00a0The title does not announce some impossible encyclopedia of European music or emulate its rhythms and timbres, but presents the author\u2019s most salient experiences in relation to chosen pieces and composers, letting language emerge with its own music\u2014one that binds sound and meaning\u2014rendering it, for that reason, untranslatable. \u00a0In \u201cFourteen Forms of Melancholy,\u201d his gaze stops at the passage of time and the deterioration of body and world. \u00a0As if foreseeing the poet\u2019s untimely death, this short piece heralds a fatalistic vision that assails the human: \u00a0we all must die and our bodies inevitably pass from autumn to winter. \u00a0After that, who knows? \u00a0In the meantime, poetry comes like a dream that disappears with the first light of day, words the poet is condemned to reconstruct when he wakes.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mazzotti<\/strong>, Tufts University, author of Sakra Boccata<\/em><\/p>\n

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This, I believe, is G. J. Racz\u2019s best translation of Eduardo Chirinos\u2019s poetry yet.\u00a0 It took me back to those occasions on which I was privileged to hear both of them read their versions side by side.\u00a0 Then, paradoxically because of the translations, the condition of music was not denied to literature.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jorge Marcone<\/strong>, Rutgers University, author of La oralidad escrita<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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