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

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

While the Wolf is Around
\nMientras el lobo est\u00e1<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

ISBN 978-1-935084-40-2
\n120 pages: $16.00
\nMay, 2014<\/p>\n

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

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While the Wolf Is Around<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>[Mientras el lobo est\u00e1<\/em><\/strong>], which won the 2009 Generation of \u201927 Poetry Prize, is the sixteenth book of poetry by Eduardo Chirinos, one of Peru\u2019s most important contemporary authors. \u00a0A member of Peru\u2019s 80\u2019s Generation, Chirinos has been widely anthologized in the Spanish-speaking world.\u00a0\u00a0While the Wolf Is Around<\/em>\u00a0treats many of the subjects and themes found throughout Chirinos\u2019s oeuvre:\u00a0 the return to childhood, the vagaries of memory, the alternative reality of dream, a fascination with animals, the utility of seeing and hearing, the writer\u2019s place in poetic tradition, the ongoing commentary on art and film, and the never-ending search for originality through innovative expression.\u00a0 Chirinos\u2019s poetics wage a constant battle against linguistic exhaustion, frequently staving off clich\u00e9 through a wry tone and simple eloquence.\u00a0 This book is his fourth in English translation, joining\u00a0Reasons for Writing Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0Written in Missoula<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a0The Smoke of Distant Fires<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eduardo Chirinos is one the leading voices of contemporary Latin American poetry, one of the most accomplished, prolific, and adverturesome in the entire lyric repertoire in Spanish.
\nOctavio Pineda<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chirinos is one of the most outstanding poets to appear within the last thirty years.\u00a0 His words create a recognizable but original world, at one and the same time natural and accessible, like something out of our own experience.
\nJos\u00e9 Miguel Oviedo<\/em><\/p>\n

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Within his historical context, that of Peruvian poetry in the 1980s, Eduardo Chirinos represents that rare case of a poet who aspires to be nothing more than a poet.
\nMart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez Gaona<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chirinos is simultaneously lyrical and narrative, mythic and historical.\u00a0 His poetic visions are circular voyages in which the subject is just a point of reference within a language that constantly confounds him.
\nV\u00edctor Vich<\/em><\/p>\n

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The formal beauty of Eduardo Chirinos\u2019s poetry is certainly one of its bastions, written as it is under the torrential sweep of words the poet both restrains and measures out, scanning them into what will end up being a poem.
\nJuan Carlos Abril<\/em><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s just say that, in Chirinos\u2019s work, the force of his words lies in dignifying the ordinary precisely for its ordinariness:\u00a0 scenes so common as to pass by unperceived, moments that make up our days but not the lists of \u201cThis Day in Hisotry.\u201d
\nRafael Espejo<\/em><\/p>\n

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The challenge in Chirinos is to hurl meaning toward epiphany, which he overwhelmingly succeeds in doing.
\nSamuel Jaramillo<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eduardo Chirinos invites the reader into his circle game of chance observation and poignant discovery, and his accounts of the daily routine, memory, poetry and paintings find a fortunate home in G. J. Racz\u2019s translation. \u00a0Grounded in moving rhythms and brilliant word choice, these versions manage to elevate the commonplace as well as the precious to a level of subtle musicality and delight.\u00a0
\nLisa Rose Bradford<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eduardo Chirinos is lucky to have G. J. Racz as his translator. \u00a0Racz brings to the task a great knowledge of Spanish and great skill with American English. \u00a0He knows how to transform spoken language into poetry, as Chirinos does. \u00a0A lesser translator would fall into prose. Racz\u2019s translations are accurate equivalents of Chirinos\u2019s poems, and a great pleasure to read.
\nJonathan Cohen, editor\/compiler of William Carlos Williams\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916\u20131959<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In these intensely personal yet erudite poems, Eduardo Chirinos draws from his childhood in his native Peru as well as from the classics and myriad other sources.\u00a0 The speakers here address writers, painters, and philosophers, even Poetry itself, in meditations that juxtapose the quotidian and the sublime.\u00a0 Bravo to the poet, and to translator G. J. Racz for delivering another collection of Chirinos\u2019s verse so naturally into English.\u00a0
\nDaniel Shapiro,\u00a0<\/em>Editor, Review:\u00a0<\/em>Literature and Arts of the Americas<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Americas Society<\/em><\/p>\n

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In\u00a0While the Wolf Is Around<\/em><\/strong>, G.J. Racz masterfully renders the playful, ironic tone of the original into English, yet he refuses to sacrifice the uniqueness that makes Eduardo Chirinos one of the most notable voices in contemporary Spanish American poetry. \u00a0
\nKatherine Hedeen<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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While the Wolf Is Around<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0confirms that Eduardo Chirinos is one the most relevant poets in Spanish-language poetry today. In this highly engaging book, written with lucidity and passion from its structure down to the details, memory shakes hands with daily life, chronicle with invention, friendship with literary admiration, one\u2019s own life with the lives of others. What\u2019s remarkable here is the breadth and depth of the understanding of reality, which includes art and poetry itself as objective consciousness: \u201cYesterday the sun reflected\/ off the blade of a knife. Maybe it was trying\/ to tell me something, but I only shut my eyes.\/ I\u2019ll hold onto that resplendence until tomorrow.\u201d This is a book of prose poems where the prose isn\u2019t prosaic, it doesn\u2019t forget it\u2019s lyric, and it flows aided admirably by the language\u2019s transparency and precision. Just like in the best Spanish-language poetry from halfway through the last century, in these pages what\u2019s emphasized is the implicit message, what\u2019s sought out is an active reader, who completes the text begun by the author, and so: \u201cEverything a poem has to say should be\/ hidden.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0
\nV\u00edctor Rodr\u00edguez N\u00fanez<\/a>, author of\u00a0<\/em>thaw<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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