Poetry, Rare and Signed, Translations

Exaltation of Light

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This is a first printing of the first paperback edition. Copies have been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since publication and are in very good condition with minimal shelf wearing. Unread. Ideal collector's copy.

Praise for Exaltation of Light

"In the poetry of Homero Ardjis there is the gaze, the pulse of the poet . . . the discontinuous time of practical and rational life and the continuity of desire and death; there is the poet's personal truth." —Octavio Paz

About the Author and Translator

Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacan, Mexico, in 1940. He was the founder of the review Correspondencias and chief editor of Diagolos; his first book of poems in translation, Blue Spaces, was published in the United States in 1974. The recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1966-67 and 1979-80, he has been visiting professor at the University of Indiana and New York University as well as Poet in Residence at Columbia University's Translation Center. Homero Aridjis also has served as Mexico's Ambassador to Switzerland and to the Netherlands. These translations have received an award from the Translation Center at Columbia University, made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A native of New York City, Elliot Weinberger is a poet, translator, and editor of the distinguished international journal of poetry and translation, Montemora. His other books of translations include Eagle or Sun and A Draft of Shadows, both by Octavio Paz.

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About the Author

Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis is a poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and diplomat known for his rich imagination, poetry of lyrical beauty, and ethical independence. He is the recipient of a Mexican Writers’ Center Fellowship, a French government fellowship, and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, ten of which have been translated into English. His book, Exaltation of Light, was translated by Eliot Weinberger and published by BOA Editions in 1981.

Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger was born in New York City, in 1949. He primarily translates Octavio Paz into English. His anthology American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Marsilio Publishers, 1993) was a bestseller in Mexico, and his edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions (Penguin Books, 1999) received the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. He was awarded PEN’s Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the United States and became the first American literary writer to be awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexico. His collection of poetry in translation include A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems (New Directions, 1979) and A Tale of Two Gardens (New Directions, 1997) by Octavio Paz, Exaltation of Light (BOA Editions, 1976) by Homero Aridjism, and Unravelling Words and Weaving Water (Graywolf Press, 1992) by Cecilia Vicuña.