{"product_id":"unthinkable-tenderness-selected-poems-9780520205871","title":"Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems","description":"Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were \"disappeared\"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"remembering their little bones when it rains\/ the compa?erosstomp on darkness\/set forth from death\/wander the tender night\/I hear their voices like living faces\"--from \u003ci\u003eRemembering Their Little Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Buenos Aires in 1930, \u003cb\u003eJuan Gelman\u003c\/b\u003e went into political exile in Europe in 1976, where he remained until 1989. Today he lives in Mexico City. \u003cb\u003eJoan Lindgren\u003c\/b\u003e spent seven years studying Gelman's work and made six visits to Argentina while doing her research.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844581495058,"sku":"9780520205871","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d4df93e3-cd33-4e95-86c9-6649af11c7e7.jpg?v=1737326011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unthinkable-tenderness-selected-poems-9780520205871","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}