@import url( http://www.popmatters.com/stylesubpage.css ); Features Columns Blogs News ... Media Center LOOKING FOR POETRY: POEMS BY CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE AND RAFAEL ALBERTI, WITH SONGS FROM THE QUECHUA Translated by Mark Strand Knopf March 2002, 173 pages, $19 paperback by Andy Fogle PopMatters Books Critic e-mail this article print this article comment on this article "Did You Bring the Key?" Ror over 30 years, Mark Strand has been up there with America's most prominent poet-translators. Like W.S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky and Robert Bly, his own poetic voice has served translations as much as it has been informed by them. He's co-edited two anthologies of foreign poetry - New Poetry of Mexico in 1970 with Octavio Paz and Another Republic in 1976 with Charles Simic - and translated several collections of poetry, including Rafael Alberti's The Owl's Insomnia in 1972 and Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Traveling in the Family in 1986 with Thomas Colchie. Strand revisits these last two, and a third party from the early '70s, in Looking For Poetry , a selection of poems by Drummond de Andrade, Alberti, and songs from the Quechua Indians of Peru and Bolivia. | |
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