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By Clara Jan\u00e9s<\/strong>
\nTranslated by Ana Valverde Osan<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ISBN 978-1-935084-86-0
\n182 pages: $18.00
\nDecember, 2015<\/p>\n

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Long before there was Romeo and Juliet, there were Layla and Majnun, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose story appeared in more than a hundred versions throughout the Arab world. Renowned Spanish poet Clara Jan\u00e9s was inspired by the beauty of this tale and by eleventh-century Persian poet, Nizami, to create a unique, twentieth-century version in which the voices of both lovers acquire equal weight. Written in 1996,\u00a0Divan of the Opal of Fire<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is part of the significant corpus of long poems written in Spain by women poets in the late twentieth century, after the death of Francisco Franco.<\/p>\n

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Divan of the Opal of Fire<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>revisits the Persian legend of Layla and Majnun, adapting an ancient language of star-crossed love to the purposes of the late twentieth century poet reclaiming the potencies and possibilities of myth (re-)newed purpose. Clara Jan\u00e9s adapts the epic poem and legend to claim the erotic voice of the poet-singer for herself and her sister poets. Against the misogyny of ancient-though-still-active archetypes of silent, obedient, domesticated women,\u00a0Divan of the Opal of Fire<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0posits a narrative of transcendent love told by ‘a pilgrim-ess of love’, woman as seer, teller, compeller of audiences. As H.D. recuperated the figure of Helen, Jan\u00e9s offers her own lyrical epic, a wild vine’s fruit pressed to new wine.
\n—Marthe Reed<\/a>, author of\u00a0Nights Reading :: Burton’s Thousand and One ::<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The brilliance of Clara Jan\u00e9s, master in the synthesis and poetic essence of the voice of love, and that of Ana Valverde Osan, skillful in the difficult accuracy of her creative translation, are evident in this book.
\n–Luis Alberto Ambroggio, author of\u00a0Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems (1987-2006)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ana Valverde Osan has produced a gorgeous translation of Clara Jan\u00e9s’ epic poem of lovers torn apart by culture. Jan\u00e9s’ epic in short lyrics is filled with the cultural and religious complexity of Spain, and her attempt to re-appropriate patriarchal myths makes the appearance of this translation especially important.
\n–William Allegrezza, author of\u00a0Collective Instant<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a0The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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