{"product_id":"ten-contemporary-spanish-women-poets-9781848617223","title":"Ten Contemporary Spanish Women Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"'Down from the mountain they forbade us swarm frantic men, brandishing their manuals of transcendental reason.'\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eThe mountain is of course Mount Olympus, and the frantic men Spain's all-male poetry establishment bent on excluding women from all their activities. 'Not to confront them, ' continues Erika Mart nez, 'would be to bow one's head in shame in front of one's own mirror.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen poets have only been published in numbers in Spain in the last 25 years and still account for only 15% of the poetry books published every year. The Premio Nacional de Poes a has been awarded 52 times and been won by a woman 4 times. It isn't at all uncommon for influential anthologies to be all-male or include at most one or two women among twenty men. Women are usually absent from the lists of the most venerable publishers. The founder of \u003cem\u003eVisor, \u003c\/em\u003eJes s Garc a S nchez, known affectionately as Chus Visor, recently declared in \u003cem\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e's culture supplement: '...women's poetry doesn't bear comparison to men's. There wasn't an important woman poet in the whole of the twentieth century and there isn't one now.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis neglect and disdain (gradually diminishing in the new generation) and the consequent delay in the appearance of Spanish women poets in translation was one of the motives for this anthology, but to bring their musical, lucid, forthright poems to English readers is its principal intent.\" --from Terence Dooley's Afterword to this volume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first anthology of its kind to appear in the UK, and features ten poets: Pilar Ad n, Martha Asunci n Alonso, Graciela Baquero, Mercedes Cebri n, Mar a Eloy-Garc a, Berta Garc a Faet, Erika Mart nez, Elena Medel, Miriam Reyes and Julieta Valero -- one born in the 1960s, six in the 1970s and three in the 1980s.\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\u003eDooley, Terence:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Terence Dooley's translation of Mariano Peyrou's The Year of the Crab was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2019. He has translated Eduardo Moga's Selected Poems, and his translation of Eduardo Moga's anthology Streets where to walk is to embark: Spanish Poets in London and of (Sur)rendering by Mario Mart?n Gij?n appeared earlier this year, all with Shearsman Books. His own poems, The Why of It, are published by The Argent Press. He has a poem nominated for the Forward Prize 2020. He is Penelope Fitzgerald's literary executor and has edited her essays, A House of Air, and her letters, So I Have Thought of You for 4th Estate.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298419867922,"sku":"9781848617223","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ece15832-de75-4f3a-9f1b-c39ed0696fb5.jpg?v=1747820021","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-contemporary-spanish-women-poets-9781848617223","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}