{"product_id":"difficult-differences-diferencias-dificiles-9781848619203","title":"Difficult Differences: Diferencias dificiles","description":"Can the poet speak for others while at the same time expressing the conviction that he is \"nobody\" (like Ulysses)? Or feeling his own disauthorization? In modern times who has ever asked the poet to speak? Carlos imagines himself as other in order to talk about his own circumstances but that is often, ironically, as an other who does not have a voice himself. The worst fate is to have no voice or to have one that is scorned: to be a Cassandra or an \"old weed\", unable to do much more than scream. Out of such contradictions poetry emerges.\u003cem\u003e (From the prologue by Roberta Ann Quance)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiera, Carlos:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Carlos Piera Gil (Madrid, 1942) is a poet, critic and linguist. He was a member of the Círculo Lingüístico de Madrid, together with Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Víctor Sánchez de Zavala, Agustín García Calvo and Isabel Llácer. He obtained his doctorate at UCLA with an unpublished thesis on Spanish metrics. He has been a professor of linguistics at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) and retired from the linguistics department at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He was a member of the editorial board of the cultural journal La Balsa de la Medusa [Madrid] from its inception in 1987 until its closure in 2011.He is the author of four books of poetry: Versos (1972), Antología para un papagayo (1985), De lo que viene como si se fuera (1991) and Religio y otros poemas (2005). His poetry has been collected in a volume entitled Apartamentos de alquiler (2013), which includes individual poems not belonging to the previous books. He has published various essays, several of them compiled in two books, entitled Contrariedades del sujeto (1993) and La moral del testigo (2012).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuance, Roberta:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Canandaigua, New York, Roberta Quance was awarded a PhD in Spanish in 1982 from Cornell University. She has written for both scholarly and general audiences in Europe and the United States. She has lectured at the University of Utrecht, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Queen's University Belfast and currently resides in Madrid.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572391837970,"sku":"9781848619203","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_664a3ef7-62be-4afe-8429-5ec19278b91f.jpg?v=1755859636","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/difficult-differences-diferencias-dificiles-9781848619203","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}